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  • You see fewer arabas and telekis, and more carriages, or rather hacks, and men galloping along on raw-boned horses in a kind of imitation

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • I helped to carry some of them from the train to the rough eight-wheeled springless arabas in which they were borne to hospital.

    Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

  • They were luckier in this respect than the majority of the men, who were huddled into the straw of the lumbering octagonal-wheeled arabas.

    VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

  • We were all alone in the midst of the courtyard, not even watched from behind the wheels of arabas, for a fight or a thrashing in the khans of Asia Minor is strictly the affair of him who gets the worst of it.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • There was knife-fighting as well as carousal before dawn, to judge by the cat-and-dog-fight swearing in and out among the camel pickets and the wheels of arabas.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Truly the place was a khan -- a great bleak building of four high outer walls, surrounding a courtyard that was a yard deep with the dung of countless camels, horses, bullocks, asses; crowded with arabas, the four-wheeled vehicles of all the Near East, and smelly with centuries of human journeys 'ends.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • We were all alone in the midst of the courtyard, not even watched from behind the wheels of arabas, for a fight or a thrashing in the khans of Asia Minor is strictly the affair of him who gets the worst of it.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

  • There was knife-fighting as well as carousal before dawn, to judge by the cat-and-dog-fight swearing in and out among the camel pickets and the wheels of arabas.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Truly the place was a khan -- a great bleak building of four high outer walls, surrounding a courtyard that was a yard deep with the dung of countless camels, horses, bullocks, asses; crowded with arabas, the four-wheeled vehicles of all the Near East, and smelly with centuries of human journeys 'ends.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

  • The wounded were sent down in arabas and litters to the ships, a painful journey of three miles.

    Jack Archer 1867

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