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- noun Plural form of
diligence .
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Examples
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Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
Chapter 5 2010
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Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
Chapter 4 2010
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" The depth of that disgust was clear when he wrote to his friend William Dean Howells about " the author-cat " raking dust over every noisome revelation, " which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell . . . the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.
The Adventures of Samuel Clemens Edmund Morris 2010
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It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences.
Les Miserables 2008
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I had only to go away; there are diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going.
Les Miserables 2008
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A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and
Areopagitica 2007
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A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and
Areopagitica 2007
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Since the beginning of the summer season he had talked much of a certain large coach, ordered from Farry, Breilmann, and Company, the best makers of diligences, — a purchase necessitated by an increasing influx of travellers.
A Start in Life 2007
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There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences of France, that gabbling and indiscreet country, where every one is in a hurry to laugh and show his wit, and where jest and epigram enliven all things, even the poverty of the lower classes and the weightier cares of the solid bourgeois.
A Start in Life 2007
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These vans, so numerous hereabout, are a respectable, if somewhat lumbering, class of conveyance, much resorted to by decent travellers not overstocked with money, the better among them roughly corresponding to the old French diligences.
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