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  • There was a simultaneous rush of trucks, hand-carts, waggons, and cars, their horses at full trot or canter, two of them rushing against the gravel-heap on which I was standing, where they were upset.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • In 1891, Mr. Gladstone had deposited about 20,000 volumes upon the shelves in this new building, with his own hands, which books were carried in hand-carts from the castle.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • They had left one of their hand-carts, already well filled, in the clearing where they had rested at noon.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • They had left one of their hand-carts, already well filled, in the clearing where they had rested at noon.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • Soon there would be piteous little hand-carts pushed up the slope to the gate, and brothers and neighbours lifting limp bodies to carry them away.

    One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

  • After all we have nothing to do with letting off rockets, we do not even push the lowliest of hand-carts, we are quite scorned by those who respect only material power.

    Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture 1970

  • They are put by hundreds into hand-carts which were waiting and carried off at once to the Halles.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • Some mend their broken fortunes by prudent alliances, and some leave a numerous progeny to pass into the obscurity from which their ancestors emerged; so that you may see on hand-carts and cobblers 'stalls names which, a few generations back, were upon parchments with broad seals, and tombstones with armorial bearings.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • These wound in and out among the crowds of people pushing hand-carts, perambulators, wheelbarrows even, all loaded with their goods.

    Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942

  • There were innumerable cyclists and long trails of people pushing hand-carts and perambulators in the torrid July heat.

    Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942

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