barouche


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a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels

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Two men were passing, just as the barouche drove off.
After a great many jokes about squeezing the ladies' sleeves, and a vast quantity of blushing at sundry jocose proposals, that the ladies should sit in the gentlemen's laps, the whole party were stowed down in the barouche; and the stout gentleman proceeded to hand the things from the fat boy (who had mounted up behind for the purpose) into the carriage.
A shadow in a long black cloak and a soft black felt hat passed along the pavement between the Rotunda and the carriages, examined the barouche carefully, went up to the horses and the coachman and then moved away without saying a word, The magistrate afterward believed that this shadow was that of the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny; but I do not agree, seeing that that evening, as every evening, the Vicomte de Chagny was wearing a tall hat, which hat, besides, was subsequently found.
Now, it must be owned that, at his first glimpse of the countenance which was bowing and smiling from the barouche, Ernest did fancy that there was a resemblance between it and the old familiar face upon the mountainside.
Meantime, the cavalcade, the banners, the music, and the barouches swept past him, with the vociferous crowd in the rear, leaving the dust to settle down, and the Great Stone Face to be revealed again, with the grandeur that it had worn for untold centuries.
Crawford would take my two nieces and me in his barouche, and Edmund can go on horseback, you know, sister, and Fanny will stay at home with you."
We'll fix you," cried the lads, as one clapped his cap on her head, another tied a rough jacket round her neck by the sleeves, a third neatly smothered her in a carriage blanket, and a fourth threw open the door of the old barouche that stood there, saying with a flourish
On quitting Brighton, our friend George, as became a person of rank and fashion travelling in a barouche with four horses, drove in state to a fine hotel in Cavendish Square, where a suite of splendid rooms, and a table magnificently furnished with plate and surrounded by a half-dozen of black and silent waiters, was ready to receive the young gentleman and his bride.
His carriage-house contained three splendid coaches, three or four gigs, besides dearborns and barouches of the most fashionable style.
[...] instead of driving in a barouche landau to Regent's Park she pulled on her thick boots and scrambled over rocks" (75).
If you have admired a barouche at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, or an ancient manure spreader at the National Museum of Rural Life in East Kilbride, you have probably seen Ian's work.
The Elliots' grand cousin, Lady Dalrymple, has a barouche, which "did not hold more than four with any comfort" (189) and must be driven by a coachman (Arnold 7).
L'integration de Tunisiens de confession juive a une gouvernementale remonte aux premieres annees de l'Independance , quand Habib Bourguiba a designe dans son equipe Albert Bsaiess et Andre Barouche , comme ministres .
Readers familiar with La Muse du departement may have guessed that I am about to discuss Lousteau's infamous crumpling of Dinah's organdie dress, a deed performed as the soon-to-be lovers cross the bridge at Cosne, alone in a barouche. (13) Unlike the mythical Rouen fiacre in Madame Bovary, a barouche is an open carriage.