carriole

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I then asked him if he were as desirous of letting his carriole, as I was of hiring it; and he again said,

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  • Daeman climbed into the conveyance, said “Fax portal” to the voynix, and sat back as the carriole hummed around the driveway, white shells crunching under the wheel. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • But the phrase “three hundred miles” meant little to Harman and nothing at all to Daeman, since trips by voynix-pulled carriole or droshky were never longer than a mile or two. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • As the dean one day was driving through the village in his carriole, just where the road turns sharply by the bridge below Aulestad, he met another carriole which was rapidly driving that way and in it a man who, without respect for the clerical vehicle, shouted with all the strength of his lungs: 'Half the road The dean turned aside, saying with a sigh: 'Has Bjornson come to the Gausdal at last?' —  Bjornstjerne Bjornson
  • So the stranger in the carriole or stolkjćrre will do well to hold the reins for the sake of appearances, and allow his skydsgut to do the rest One word of comfort to the adventurous driver: Do not be alarmed if you notice that the harness is dropping to pieces. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • Or, if there be a few days to spare, one can steam across the head of the Sogne Fjord from Gudvangen to Lćrdalsören, and thence again take carriole or stolkjćrre to the Fillefjeld, and so visit the wildest of Norway's mountain districts, the Jotunheim--the Home of the Giants CHAPTER XIV ARCTIC DAYS AND NIGHTS Everyone has read of the midnight sun and of the sunless winter of the North. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
 

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/ˈkærɪoʊl/
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