gharry

• I'd two or three cab voyages, "gharry," I should have said, before I got the best part of ours to the Taj Hotel. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
• All conversation gradually stopped, and you only heard the number of the gharry or carriage shouted out with a rich brogue and sometimes a little stifled joke and a "Chelo!" —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
• Now we pass a slow going gharry, and now two young hatless soldiers in a high dog cart pass us under the trees, downhill at a canter, an inch between us, and half an inch between their off wheel and the edge of the road, and the sea ten feet beneath. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
• But I see there's a good deal of baling done, and the baggage, with the water in bilge and spray over all, must get wet outside at least--Fixed up about cabins for Rangoon, lunched at our hotel, the Connemara, then hired a gharry or victoria--I'm not sure which the conveyance we hired by the week should be called--and drove to the racecourse, an A.1. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
• Shans in flapping hats; right in front of him stood a stalwart Burman, wearing a white jacket, a pink silk handkerchief, twisted jauntily around his bullet head, and a yellow Lungi, girded to the knee, displayed a three-tailed cat tattooed on the back of each substantial calf And what a curious, soft and penetrating atmosphere; moist and loaded with unfamiliar, aromatic odours However, Mr. Salter, a man of action, had no time to spare for contemplation, and briskly hustled the stranger into a waiting taxi--for the old days of the rattling, shattered gharry are numbered I suppose this is all new to you?" —  The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

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