calashes

• “The fashionable promenades were all crowded; gay uniforms and brilliant parasols thronged the ramparts; horsemen were cantering along St. Louis Street; priestly processions passed to and from the different churches; numbers of calashes containing pleasure-parties were dashing about; picnic parties were returning from Montmorenci and Lake Charles; groups of vivacious talkers, speaking in the language of France, were at every street-corner;”

  The Englishwoman in America

• “` ` It seems to me, your excellency, '' remarked the colonel, ` ` that there are no better calashes than those of Vienna. '”

  Taras Bulba and Other Tales

• “Through the throng innumerable calashes dashed to and fro, crowded down, in true Neapolitan fashion, with inconceivable numbers; for in Naples the calash is not full unless a score or so are in some way clinging to it -- above, below, before, behind.”

  The Cryptogram A Novel

• “Hay-carts, calashes, buck-boards, and rude specimens of cabs were being driven by French-Canadian habitants along the road.”

  Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence

• “Parties on horseback and in calashes were formed continually.”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “Swings and merry-go-rounds were scattered all over it, so that the diversions of "_La Era del Mico_," together with the two-wheeled calashes and chaises which were still in use in those days, and the funerals passing continually through the street, were the amusements which were provided ready-made for us, as we looked down from our balcony.”

  Youth and Egolatry

• “Orders had already been issued, that the army should break up immediately after the funeral, and our calashes were ready.”

  Camps and Firesides of the Revolution

• “By the time Almayer had clambered over into the stern sheets, four calashes were in the boat and the oars were being passed over the taffrail.”

  An Outcast Of The Islands

• “During one of those occurrences, while they were getting clear, one of the calashes said something to the others in a rapid whisper.”

  An Outcast Of The Islands

• “The calashes stretched forward head first and lay back with their faces to the sky, alternately, in a regular swing that sent the boat flying through the water; and the two sitters, very upright in the stern sheets, swayed rhythmically a little at every stroke of the long oars plied vigorously.”

  An Outcast Of The Islands

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