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  • It is as if my imagination were an old work-horse suddenly released from its accustomed tip-cart and handed over to a gay young knight who is setting forth in quest of dragons.

    By the Christmas Fire Samuel McChord Crothers

  • Joe has been trying to drive that tip-cart, and the horse ran away with him twice.

    The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

  • Then there were several thuds, followed by a rumble that was unmistakable -- falling masonry; it was the noise that bricks make when they dump them from a tip-cart, only smothered by the thickness of the cavern floor.

    Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

  • With the early light, Yaxis was off, to the south, pushing his tip-cart before him and calling aloud -- bananas and fruit and the joy of

    Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

  • Again I bore a brief interruption from two young women, who, propelled in a tip-cart by a single donkey, parleyed with me about a wagon taken by somebody, from somewhere, at some time.

    The Romance of the Civil War 1903

  • Gluttonous, ugly and lazy, rough as a tip-cart to ride,

    Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses 1902

  • "You can't have your husband driving a tip-cart for John Leach.

    The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

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