barouches

It was not long before I heard a vehicle enter the court-yard, turn, and stop in the carriage-way, I tried to catch a glimpse of it from the window, but saw it only in imagination, -- that barouche of barouches, which is

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Max 2009

She saw all kinds of vehicles including the tanks and trucks the Army put into the street; "the handsome limousines in which the Department of Commerce rides ... the barouches in which the Department of State rides with such dignity ... [and] the noisy patrols in which the Department of Justice officials sometimes appear."

Marian Wright Edelman: Can Children Get Congress To Protect Their Health? 2009

Likewise, several fighting men, and a patriotic group of burglars sportively armed with life-preservers, proceeded (in barouches and very drunk) to the scene of action at their own expense; these children of nature having conceived a warm attachment to our honourable friend, and intending, in their artless manner, to testify it by knocking the voters in the opposite interest on the head.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Great dowager barouches roll along emblazoned with coronets, and driven by coachmen in silvery wigs.

The Newcomes 2006

Landaus, barouches, or tilburies, there were none in those simple days.

Old Mortality 2004

Along the drive below her swept barouches, with a mechanical tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, and great cars with polished black hoods and engines quiet as the sigh of an old man.

Main Street 2004

They scattered traffic brass and barouches, flyers and flowerbeds, leaping ever higher into the sterling blue sky.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

In this mid-May fine weather the view from Richmond Hill had all the width and leafy charm which had drawn so many Forsytes in phaetons and barouches, in hansom cabs and motor cars from immemorial time, or at least from the days of George the Fourth.

Swan Song 2004