pair-horse

• “Candidates are constantly occupied in driving all over the borough in pair-horse carriages, lavishly decorated with the party colours, orange for the Liberals, blue for the Conservatives.”

  Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892

• “I arrived at King City over-night, and my old school pal, who had asked me to pay him a visit, met me at the Central Saloon early next morning -- so early, that we had breakfasted and were off in a pair-horse buckboard by seven o'clock.”

  Adventures in Many Lands

• “The pair-horse was waiting with Blue and Yellow, two Americans, in it; the change took three seconds, and Blue and Yellow galloped back to the start in 12 minutes 51-2/5 seconds.”

  Highways and Byways in Surrey

• “At noon on the day of the race the horses and carriages were taken to the course; at five and twenty minutes to one Lord Lonsdale drove up in a pair-horse brougham; at one o'clock to the second he trotted his single horse, War Paint, to the starting-point, and War Paint bounded down the road.”

  Highways and Byways in Surrey

• “Joshua happened to be coming out of his father's workshop just as Mr. Grand was passing, driving the neat pair-horse phaeton he had lately bought.”

  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction

• “Bostock's pair-horse van arrived before the garden gate earlier than her worse fears had anticipated, and Bostock's men were evidently in a tremendous hurry that morning.”

  The Grim Smile of the Five Towns

• “Just then the racket was distracting, a pair-horse trolly lightly loaded with loose rods of iron passing slowly very near us.”

  Chance A Tale in Two Parts

• “Although the weather was bitterly cold, Mr. Wodehouse, my father, myself, a couple of Mr. Wodehouse's servants, and a young fellow who had been connected, I think, with a Paris banking-house, travelled in an open pair-horse break.”

  My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71

• “Archbishop Harcourt never went from Bishopthorpe to York Minster except attended by his chaplains, in a coach and six, while Lady Anne was made to follow in a pair-horse carriage, to show her that her position was not the same thing among women that her husband's was among men.”

  Collections and Recollections

• “There they made us kindly welcome, did all they could for him, and transhipped the hammock into a pair-horse dray, which went quicker and was easier.”

  Station Amusements

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