perambulator

• “So the Bishop like the nursemaid in my parable thought he knew better what clothes the baby ought to wear in the new perambulator, that is to say what services we ought to have in the new St. Wilfred's.”

  The Altar Steps

• “The perambulator is our Mission here in Lima Street.”

  The Altar Steps

• “Almost the only mode of conveyance for travelers is a vehicle called a jinricksha, having somewhat the appearance of a large perambulator, which is drawn by natives with”

  Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army

• “Coming toward the three children seated in the sand by the perambulator was a thin bent old woman, leaning on a stick.”

  Lydia of the Pines

• “She has lived in a palace; and her perambulator was a gondola.”

  Fanny's First Play

• “Don had never seen one but he recognized its function; it was a Martian's "perambulator," a portable air-conditioning unit to provide the rare, cold air necessary to a Martian aborigine.”

  Between Planets

• “I claim, 1st, In combination with a wheeled machine for planting corn or other seed at regular intervals, a "perambulator," substantially as described, when hung concentrically to a revolving seed cylinder, C, and operated in connection therewith, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein in specified.”

  Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.

• “He was a "perambulator," and, in the words of one of his critics,”

  English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

• “Coincidentally, when out for a woodsy walk this morning, my co-perambulator noticed a set of tracks in the snow and noted that they likely belonged to “something large, galumphing.””

  The Boat | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast

• “Beyond, under the palms at the edge of the sea, two Chinese nursemaids, in their pretty native costume of white yee-shon and-straight-lined trousers, their black braids of hair down their backs, attended each on a baby in a perambulator.”

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