curricle

• “The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare it with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne's curiosity, and the whole six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen issuing from the door amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and taking his seat, to drive off.”

  Persuasion

• “Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually: on the racecourse of Vincennes or Sablons, behold in English curricle-and-four, wafted glorious among the principalities and rascalities, an English Dr. Dodd, (Adelung, Geschichte der Menschlichen Narrheit, para Dodd.) -- for whom also the too early gallows gapes.”

  The French Revolution

• “Theres a lake in front with boatsful of nobillaty and musitions floting on its placid sufface — and a curricle is a driving up to the grand hentrance, and me in it, with”

  The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters

• “The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare it with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne’s curiosity, and the whole six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen issuing from the door amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and taking his seat, to drive off.”

  Persuasion

• “Curriculo collegisse juvat" -- are there any individuals to whom their curricle has been a college, and who have done without a university in the strength of a fast-trotting horse?”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

• “With a rapid, jingling drive to the harbour in a two - wheeled machine (which Captain Mitchell called a curricle) behind a fleet and scraggy mule beaten all the time by an obviously Neapolitan driver, the cycle would be nearly closed before the lighted-up offices of the O.S. N. Company, remaining open so late because of the steamer.”

  Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard

• “Theres a lake in front with boatsful of nobillaty and musitions floting on its placid sufface -- and a curricle is a driving up to the grand hentrance, and me in it, with Mrs., or perhaps Lady Hangelana de la Pluche.”

  Burlesques

• “A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France.”

  Northanger Abbey

• “My curricle, which is now at the door, will be more convenient than a chaise; and I will engage to be back before to-morrow morning.”

  Thaddeus of Warsaw

• “A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise-and-four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty-France.”

  Northanger Abbey

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