wagonette

Example Sentences

• "The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him."
• "On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre"
• "The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity."
• "He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year."
• "In my day-dreams, I could easily visualise myself (wearing a regulation bowler hat, no doubt) next to an equally bowler-hatted Dr Watson, sucking on a pipe and looking at the civilised and well-cultivated pastoral, unveiling behind the window. "The train pulled up at a small wayside station, and we all descended. Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette with a pair of cobs was waiting. Our coming was evidently a great event, for station master and porters clustered round us to carry out our luggage." At this point, I had to descend - from my cloud-cuckoo-land, to look up the word 'cob' in my dog-eared English-Russian Dictionary, published in Moscow in 1948. According to that, the word's only meaning was 'male swan'. Hmm... a wagonette, drawn by swans."