donkey-carts

As a senator's son he had no notion of economising with donkey-carts.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

No drinking and no streamers, no donkey-carts, false noses, badinage.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

Mol Hara Square stood empty behind her except for a few creaking ox - and donkey-carts on their way to the markets, a scattering of women balancing huge baskets on their heads.

A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

There is glass in the windows, in the long, slitlike windows set in the infinitely high sand-walls of the merchant palaces; in the alleys of Jahilia, donkey-carts roll forward on smooth silicon wheels.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

In wagons, in market carts, in _char-à-bancs_, in donkey-carts, on the backs of monster Percherons -- the pilgrimage moved in slow processional dignity across the dike.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

Big domes and little domes, donkey-carts that jog,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 Various

Demanding Haytian bank-notes for a few hundred dollars on a letter of credit, the tourist, after a time of waiting, sees the street on which the banker lives completely blocked with donkey-carts, drays, mules, horses with panniers and carts drawn by bullocks.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

Old battered motor-cars, lorries, mule carts, donkey-carts, all were loaded to disintegration point with people making for Montargis.

Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942

To him policemen and dogs and cats and donkey-carts are always just about to do something dramatic or absurd or unexpected.

Balloons Elizabeth Bibesco 1921

Though it was not yet light, the peasants were already pouring into the city from outlying villages and farms, bringing their families in donkey-carts or wagons drawn by sleek oxen, to enjoy the wonderful events which were to take place in the city on that holy day.

The Italian Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901