jehu

• He was driven up in a cart by a country jehu, and leaping out, there followed him a couple of friends Haviland called Tardif, the head servant, who appeared at the door of the house, bareheaded, with an apron on Bring the dinner out here, Tardif," he ordered; and a light table was set under the spreading boughs Now tell us, De La Lande, about your trip to Montreal Of the two friends who drove up with their host in the cart, one was Breboeuf, a hunchback. —  The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making
• In spite of Shirley's protest Jefferson insisted on paying Combien?_" he asked the cocher The jehu, a surly, thick-set man with a red face and small, cunning eyes like a ferret, had already sized up his fares for two sacrי foreigners whom it would be flying in the face of Providence not to cheat, so with unblushing effrontery he answered Dix francs, Monsieur!_" And he held up ten fingers by way of illustration Jefferson was about to hand up a ten-franc piece when Shirley indignantly interfered. —  The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life
• A quarter of an hour later they arrived at the third precinct, where our jehu was registered for the night under the name of James Osborne. —  Man on the Box
• Fortunately for the jehu, these rides were always into the north country. —  Man on the Box
• I only wish I could describe the race as my jehu told it to me. —  Man on the Box

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