I called a cabriolet, and the first thing the driver asked was, "Is the Bill carried?". From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
The high-performance two-seater cabriolet is codenamed R2, and is being developed with VW. From Wordnik.com. [AutoSpies.com News] Reference
The second occupant of the cabriolet was a young girl, sixteen or eighteen years old -- sixteen rather than eighteen. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
He then took a cabriolet and drove to Grosvenor Square. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
She leaped from the cabriolet, and rushed for the platform. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
David had hired a cabriolet, pretending that he was going to. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
David, and he climbed into the shabby cabriolet and drove away with. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
Mr Pecksniff was in a hackney cabriolet, for Jonas Chuzzlewit had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
This clumsy and heavy steed he harnessed into the cabriolet as best he could. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
They got into a handsome cabriolet which was waiting for them and drove away. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Today, it's jingle bells, and laughing all the way in your brand new cabriolet. From Wordnik.com. [Amid Slowing Sales,] Reference
The cabriolet was riddled with slugs, and the king was wounded in several places. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
We were just getting out of the cabriolet, when a hackney cab turned into the street. From Wordnik.com. [Gobseck] Reference
The cabriolet stopped, and the gates of the hotel were thrown open at the same instant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
At starting he encountered Arden driving a cabriolet, who asked him whither he was bound. From Wordnik.com. [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference
We set out accordingly in a sort of cabriolet, resembling a covered curricle, for Stutgard. From Wordnik.com. [A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium] Reference
He had the hired man harness Ralph to the cabriolet, and in an hour they wheeled into town. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
After a brief reflection, he called a hack – cabriolet, and bade the man drive towards Bethnal. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
A hackney – cabriolet was in waiting; with the same vehemence which she had exhibited in addressing. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
On seeing Albert's cabriolet, they redoubled their cries -- 'An aristocrat! give it him, give it him!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
The two friends jumped into a cabriolet to go about collecting guests and pens, ideas and self-interests. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Eve] Reference
Julien got into the cabriolet beside the driver, who began at once to belabor vigorously his mulish animal. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The moment the cabriolet stopped, the man behind jumped down, took my brother in his arms, as if he had been. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
In a moment the cabriolet is surrounded, and from the midst of the crowd an object rises and moves towards him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
So standing at the sink I imagined the man in the cabriolet down in the park at this moment, its top folded back. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
Mr Dorrit, not without a glance over his shoulder towards his driver and the cabriolet, walked into the dim hall. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
'Yes,' groaned the poor fellow; 'I drove a cabriolet for a year or two' ---- 'Go on,' said the professor encouragingly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
The soft-top Audi A4 cabriolet also has a decent-size trunk and is, I think, more like a sport sedan than the Mercedes. From Wordnik.com. [Which Convertible Has] Reference
David Patton Audi showed the Cross cabriolet quattro, which combines features of its TT cabriolet and the Q7 large SUV. From Wordnik.com. [Los Angeles Auto Show] Reference
He hurried to the stable, had his horse harnessed, and in a few minutes, seated in his cabriolet, was crossing the fields. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
“Well,” said the Marquise, “a stable with five horses and three carriages, a phaeton, a brougham, and a cabriolet.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Commission in Lunacy] Reference
M. Durand, our voiturier, attended accordingly with one of his portly mares harnessed to a sort of cabriolet, very much resembling an. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
His cabriolet drove most furiously to the place where Lord B's carriage and four horses were waiting, thence going off at full speed. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
All this was likely enough; there was but a moment to deliberate, and I got into the first cabriolet, and drove with him to the barrier. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
It was within a week of the close of the month of July, that a hackney cabriolet, number unrecorded, was seen to proceed at a rapid pace up. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
For a moment I resolved to stop, and, opposing the back of the cabriolet to the force of the tempest, to expect morning as well as I might. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
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