jarvey

• The hackney halted in Bury Street; Tony swung down to the pavement, tossed a coin to the jarvey, and strode quickly up the steps of Number 23. —  A Gentleman's Honor
• In the summer a steamer makes the trip by the river, and it must be as charming in its way as the ascent of the Dart from Dartmouth to Totness, or of the Eance from Dinard to St. Suliac. My jarvey was rather a taciturn fellow, but by no means insensible to the charms of his native region. —  Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
• It took me over a long stretch of the best hunting country of Galway, and my jarvey was a Galwegian of the type dear to the heart of Lever. —  Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
• My jarvey, who knew the whole country, said they must have broken cover somewhere on the upper road, and we should miss them entirely. —  Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
• The landlord found me a good car, and off I set for the residence of Father Maher, the curate of whom I had heard as one of the most fiery and intractable of the National League priests in this part of Ireland My jarvey was rather taciturn at first, but turned out to be something of a politician. —  Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

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