caleche

Example Sentences

• "Here he was put in a caleche, and transported forthwith to the nearest frontier."
• "One is struck with the comparative absence of wheeled vehicles in the streets of Rio. Now and then a clumsy caleche is driven past by a negro postillion, in blue livery and jackboots, riding a second horse yoked outside the shafts, and omnibuses drawn by four or six mules, are not infrequently met with, and seem to be much patronised."
• "At that instant who should appear but our faithful Mata, driving the old caleche in which we were in the habit of making our little excursions in the neighborhood of the Port."
• "At Brussels the Napoleonic coach was set aside for a more serviceable caleche."
• "To view this mountain I and my little family set off in a caleche on the third morning after our arrival at Bangor."
• "Upon my arriving there, the Gypsies swarmed out from their tents, and from the little tradeer, or tavern, and surrounded me; standing on the seat of the caleche, I addressed them in a loud voice in the dialect of the English Gypsies, with which I have some slight acquaintance."