Tilbury

The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a hired vehicle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He went to the theatre, drove a "tilbury," and attended native _réunions_, to deploy his abilities before the _beau sexe_ of his class. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

It was a tilbury harnessed to a small white horse. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted himself to it,” etc., etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man enveloped in a mantle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That it was it who had broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Monsieur Scaufflaire,” said he, “at what sum do you estimate the value of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me, — the one bearing the other?” ❋ Unknown (2008)

I own my ears did tingle a little at the word treasure, and that a handsome tilbury, with a neat groom in blue and scarlet livery, having a smart cockade on his glazed hat, seemed as it were to glide across the room before gay eyes, while a voice, as of a crier, pronounced my ear, ❋ Unknown (2008)

Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a hundred crowns. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been travelling since morning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent shock. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the spotted head of a certain bay horse happened to cross the narrow strip between the two rows of houses, Caroline gave a little shiver and stood on tiptoe in hope of recognizing the white traces and the color of the tilbury. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I shall drive in your tilbury, my boy, enjoy your success with women, and say to myself, ‘This fine young fellow, this Marquis de Rubempre, my creation whom I have brought into this great world, is my very Self; his greatness is my doing, he speaks or is silent with my voice, he consults me in everything.’ ❋ Unknown (2007)

This card gave him an odor of aristocracy; and now, as a man of fashion, he was so impudent as to set up a tilbury and a groom and haunt the clubs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Emilie then saw the attractive couple get into an elegant tilbury, by which stood a mounted groom in livery. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We have English horses, a coupe, a barouche, and a tilbury. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Having attended with joy to these details, which touched Roger, she placed the infant in her pretty cot and went out on to the balcony, whence she presently saw the carriage which her friend, as he grew to riper years, now used instead of the smart tilbury of his youth. ❋ Unknown (2007)