perambulators

This was the hour when at any other time of year the great tide of perambulators, which is drawn up into the Park twice a day by some invisible and unvarying moon, would have been on the ebb.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

Although even here the effect was diminished by a ludicrous corruption and inefficiency — it was open season for German businessmen, large and small, who built up private industrial empires by confiscation and "licensing" and then used them to manufacture and market luxuries (such as perambulators) which were banned in the more tightly organised economy of the Reich.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Fences were few, and though they were viewed at intervals by the "perambulators," and decided to be

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878

Children were handled by nannies attired in straw boaters and stiff white pique dresses, who pushed perambulators in which the babies were almost hidden behind the bathing dresses, towels, wooden spades (for iron ones were forbidden because they could cause injury) for their elder siblings.

Summer at the Beach | Edwardian Promenade 2008

Waves of thrilling fear crashed beneath her skin as she sneaked along, weaving her way around people, wagons, dogs and perambulators hazy with fog.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

Waves of thrilling fear crashed beneath her skin as she sneaked along, weaving her way around people, wagons, dogs and perambulators hazy with fog.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

It never ceased to amaze Eliza that little girls born to grand houses and fancy perambulators and lacy frocks should fall victim to Mrs. Swindell for such a small price as a bag of boiled sweets.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

It never ceased to amaze Eliza that little girls born to grand houses and fancy perambulators and lacy frocks should fall victim to Mrs. Swindell for such a small price as a bag of boiled sweets.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

Waves of thrilling fear crashed beneath her skin as she sneaked along, weaving her way around people, wagons, dogs and perambulators hazy with fog.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

It never ceased to amaze Eliza that little girls born to grand houses and fancy perambulators and lacy frocks should fall victim to Mrs. Swindell for such a small price as a bag of boiled sweets.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009