The covered carriage known as a drosky is a rather lumbering vehicle on four wheels. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
On a certain occasion I called a drosky-man and directed him to drive me to the United States Consulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
He holds a conference with two brother drosky-men. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
"Reece, reece," said the excited drosky driver as he greedily accepted his handful of driver's rations. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The driver of our drosky drove us over the rough cobbles so rapidly, despite the hill, that we were almost overturned. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
He merely sat on his drosky as cool as a cucumber. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
"Get the drosky out at dawn to-morrow," he ordered Ignat. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
The drosky-man claimed forty kopecks, just double his fare. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
At last the drosky stopped before the open door, and Father. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
Malcolm stepped into the little drosky like a man in a dream. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of All-Power] Reference
The drosky is in itself a curiosity as a means of locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
"Never mind," said he; "perhaps our drosky drivers, our ishvoshtsticks, can read it.". From Wordnik.com. [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference
I wonder where else the two shillings I paid for the drosky would have purchased so much delight. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
An occasional drosky, carrying home some belated pleasure-seeker, was all that disturbed the silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
On account of the holidays, we paid double prices for labor, and were charged double by drosky drivers. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
At night when we are waiting we can get into the drosky and sleep, while it is terrible without shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia] Reference
After breakfast we took a drosky, or whatever these fore-and-aft-seated vehicles are called, and set out for. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
I did not experience them myself, possibly because my only companion was the half-tipsy Irish drosky-driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
The drosky-man followed in the rear, driving along very leisurely, and with great apparent comfort to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
While we drove along the Front, the children waved their hands over the sides of the drosky, and shouted with delight. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
Severe punishment had to be resorted to in order to stop the hostility of the drosky-drivers against the strange innovation. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
These latter were introduced in 1882, and at first met with fierce antagonism from the drosky-drivers, who swarm here as in every city in. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
A drosky by the hour, with a kindly-faced young man for driver. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
A drosky, or something of that sort, but not a four-wheeled coach. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson.] Reference
A drosky, or one-horse carriage, and in it was a man and beside him a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Further Foolishness] Reference
A whole volley of requests from the half-tipsy drosky-drivers who thronged the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
"'At the last stroke of the hour a drosky will await you at the main entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
“I will overtake you with the bay colts in the drosky, but I must first go to Albany. From Wordnik.com. [Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to] Reference
The drosky driver smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of All-Power] Reference
He drove thither in a drosky. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
At dawn to-morrow we must get out the drosky. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
A drosky to haul dad to the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904] Reference
17. drosky. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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