wagonette

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  1. A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

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  • Pray excuse this card--necessity knows no etiquette Yours Hugh Kinross A minute later the wagonette was gaily upon its way again, Hugh in excellent spirits now he had laid the little demon of compunction that had been troubling his kind heart since breakfast And Larkin was cantering happily down to "Greenways," his own pocket (he kept his right-hand pocket for the money due to Octavius, and his left-hand for his own tips) the heavier by a shilling Miss Bibby, Miss Bibby!" —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • In the wagonette were Lalage and Hilda. —  Lalage's Lovers
  • But there, I suppose we must make the best of it We must, and will, and can," said Mrs. Merriman in her cheery voice She had scarcely said the words before a wagonette was seen driving down the summer lane. —  A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls
  • "And I will CHAPTER TWENTY ONE A MOUNTAIN MIST Three days later a wagonette was chartered from Rew, to drive the diminished party to the scene of the haunted castle. —  Big Game A Story for Girls
  • There were other reasons why she never got to know, but these come later The next day Uncle Richard came and took them all to Maidstone in a wagonette--all except the Lamb. —  Five Children and It
 

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