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The fashionable promenades were all crowded; gay uniforms and brilliant parasols thronged the ramparts; horsemen were cantering along St. Louis Street; priestly processions passed to and from the different churches; numbers of calashes containing pleasure-parties were dashing about; picnic parties were returning from Montmorenci and Lake Charles; groups of vivacious talkers, speaking in the language of France, were at every street-corner;

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` ` It seems to me, your excellency, '' remarked the colonel, ` ` that there are no better calashes than those of Vienna. ''

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Hay-carts, calashes, buck-boards, and rude specimens of cabs were being driven by French-Canadian habitants along the road.

Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence Maud Ogilvy

Parties on horseback and in calashes were formed continually.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Through the throng innumerable calashes dashed to and fro, crowded down, in true Neapolitan fashion, with inconceivable numbers; for in Naples the calash is not full unless a score or so are in some way clinging to it -- above, below, before, behind.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

Swings and merry-go-rounds were scattered all over it, so that the diversions of "_La Era del Mico_," together with the two-wheeled calashes and chaises which were still in use in those days, and the funerals passing continually through the street, were the amusements which were provided ready-made for us, as we looked down from our balcony.

Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

Orders had already been issued, that the army should break up immediately after the funeral, and our calashes were ready.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

By the time Almayer had clambered over into the stern sheets, four calashes were in the boat and the oars were being passed over the taffrail.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

During one of those occurrences, while they were getting clear, one of the calashes said something to the others in a rapid whisper.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

The calashes stretched forward head first and lay back with their faces to the sky, alternately, in a regular swing that sent the boat flying through the water; and the two sitters, very upright in the stern sheets, swayed rhythmically a little at every stroke of the long oars plied vigorously.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896