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  • Robert Ghement/European Pressphoto Agency ALL DRIED UP: Romanian men driving a horse-cart laden with sand and stones made their way Friday along the dried-up bed of the Susita River near the village of Tisita, 200 kilometers northeast of Bucharest, Romania.

    Photos of the Day: Dec. 2 2011

  • Rupak DeChowdhuri/Reuters Flood-affected people moved to safer ground Thursday in a horse-cart during heavy rain in Murliganj, India.

    Monsoon Ravages India 2008

  • It is not above twenty or thirty years, according to the evidence of many credible witnesses now alive, since a little miserable horse-cart, performing with difficulty a journey of thirty miles per diem, carried our mails from the capital of Scotland to its extremity.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • He opened his eyes with the distinct memory of having been in this exact lamentable situation before, only this time he was not in a moving horse-cart.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • He opened his eyes with the distinct memory of having been in this exact lamentable situation before, only this time he was not in a moving horse-cart.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • The time lag effect of non-USD leading USD movement (hence the stabilizing effect) for an "pseudo"-USD peg (see horse-cart analogy above)

    Archive 2005-09-01 Sun Bin 2005

  • The time lag effect of non-USD leading USD movement (hence the stabilizing effect) for an "pseudo"-USD peg (see horse-cart analogy above)

    RMB update Sep-23-2005: non-USD gap(band) doubled Sun Bin 2005

  • Kennedy abandoned his horse-cart in the scrub of the

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • _ -- Captain Welles was here this morning, advising daddy to buy a horse-cart.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • But Garrison had swung on to a near-by horse-cart, jammed into rubber boots, coats, and helmet, tying a wet towel over nose and mouth.

    Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course 1924

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