droshkies

Although droshkies provided cheap transportation in the city, they were not the safest of vehicles.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

Although droshkies provided cheap transportation in the city, they were not the safest of vehicles.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

Although droshkies provided cheap transportation in the city, they were not the safest of vehicles.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

Although droshkies provided cheap transportation in the city, they were not the safest of vehicles.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

We thanked both our good friend and St. Macarius (who presides over the Fair) for this fortune, took possession, and then hired fresh droshkies to descend the hill.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

Two hours upon the breezy parapet, beside the old Tartar walls, were all too little; but the droshkies waited in the river-street a quarter of a mile below us, our return to Moscow was ordered for the afternoon, there were amethysts and Persian silks yet to be bought, and so we sighed farewell to an enjoyment rare in Russia, and descended the steep footpath.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

The _droshkies_ disappear one by one with the black mud of autumn; and by the time the gilt cupolas of the churches, and the red and green roofs of the houses, have been made whiter than their own walls, the city swarms with sledges.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

Cigány music, and cafés and paprika and two-horse droshkies.

Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

Contrariwise, were these fictitious characters embarked in palankeens or droshkies or jinrikishas, more or less intellectual exercise would be necessitated on the reader's part to form a notion of the conveyance.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

Contrariwise, were these fictitious characters embarked in palankeens or droshkies or jinrikishas, more or less intellectual exercise would be necessitated on the reader's part to form a notion of the conveyance.

The Certain Hour 1909