He arrived in a comfortable open carriage -- one of the kind called landau -- drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrents of Spring] Reference
He arrived in a comfortable open carriage — one of the kind called landau — drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrents of Spring] Reference
Even the coat of arms on her landau was found by your. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference
She climbed into the landau with more energy than grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Then both walked toward the landau and the linen umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
It was well shaded, though directly in sight of the landau. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Alicia's landau stood at the door of the Baker Institution. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
You hoped for a landau, and feathers and cushions, perhaps?. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Wyesdale and her daughter, followed her god-mother to the landau. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
He approached the landau and pulled up, tipping his hat as he did so. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Doctor to his wife and Mattie, who sat beside him in the leading landau. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
She always came in an elegant landau, with liveried coachman and footman. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
An example has just passed my window, in the shape of a dashing English landau. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference
At her directions, Hopkins pulled the landau to a stop in front of a small clearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Montfanon and Dorsenne met him to conduct him to the rendezvous in the classical landau. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He does not precisely sing, of course; but then he looks so unassuming in his open landau!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
The back half of the roof was a padded-vinyl “landau” treatment, giving a sporty touch. From Wordnik.com. [My favorite Pontiac–The Phoenix] Reference
They were completely secluded, the landau too far away for Hopkins or Anna to hear her cries. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Upon my arrival at the seat of the dukedom I was met by a quiet landau of the Grand Ducal stables. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
The landau was being piled with odds and ends while the last bits of business were being got through. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
We decided upon chartering a landau for ourselves and servant, and two ekkas to carry the heavy baggage. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
The landau took me to a side entrance and I was promptly shown into an austere and unpretentious chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
And so fate willed Signor Castenelli (the young Italian who had accompanied them to the landau) to Vaura. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
No ekka -- the one which had been ordered with the landau having apparently got another job and departed. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Mrs. DABCHICK rides in a huge landau with blue wheels, and leaves cards on the fringes of the aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891] Reference
Finally, there is the landau -- a civilised and luxurious method of conveyance which greatly appealed to us. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
What was our amazement and disgust to find neither landau nor ekkas, nor, apparently, any chance of getting them!. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
At noon the landau was brought in, minus a step and very dirty, but otherwise "unwounded from the dreadful close.". From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
He was accompanied by the Under-Sheriffs, and by the officers of the Tower: the landau was surrounded by a party of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
He bowed continually, like royalty from a landau, almost as mechanically, and answered the remarks that greeted him. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
"What a shame to see such pretty beasts in harness, Lionel, as those attached to our landau," observed Lady Esmondet. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
He remits one of those bills to his London agent, and desires him to purchase, with the proceeds thereof, a superb landau. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference
It was explained to them gently, but firmly, that if they touched my ekkas or landau they would taste the waters of the Jhelum. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
And he sauntered across to the carriage house and critically inspected the splendid landau that was being rolled out upon the gravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
A mist of obscurity hangs over their doings until the moment when they saw before them an open landau -- or gharry, as it is termed in. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Our excellent factotum, Sabz Ali, awaited us with a capacious landau, and informed us that the heavy baggage had gone on in the ekkas. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
During the afternoon the landau turned up from Srinagar, and at 6 P.M. one of my myrmidons rushed in to say that two ekkas had arrived at the dâk bungalow. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
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