carriage-door

He keeps his hand upon the carriage-door, and asks some other question to enhance the expectation.

Pictures from Italy 2007

At the sight of a well-dressed woman about to cross the street, a commissionaire held an umbrella above us, and stood waiting at the carriage-door for his tip.

The Magic Skin 2007

Duke of Argyle, as Archibald opened the carriage-door.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

The herculean plushed one went back to open the carriage-door.

The Book of Snobs 2006

But seeing her thus, he came round to the front, stooped under the rail, and stood beside the carriage-door.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Almost at the same place in the road where two hours before they had come upon Emil, he again jumped out from behind a tree, and, with a cry of joy upon his lips, waving his cap and leaping into the air, he rushed straight at the carriage, almost fell under the wheel, and, without waiting for the horses to stop, clambered up over the carriage-door and fairly clung to Sanin.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

Rumty himself, with his pen behind his ear under his rusty hat, arrived at the carriage-door in a breathless condition, and had been fairly lugged into the vehicle by his cravat and embraced almost unto choking, before he recognized his daughter.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

That was his idea as he closed the carriage-door on the two ladies, — thinking that if a larger remnant were left of one cat than of the other that larger remnant would belong to his wife.

The Way We Live Now 2004

Always a light in his office-room when we came home from the play or Opera, and he always at the carriage-door to hand us out.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

They left unattended, without flowers or other souvenirs, without any of the demonstratively pathetic farewells, the waving of hats, and crowding about the carriage-door, which one of the family, at least, had connected inseverably with their departure.

Maurice Guest 2003