I'd two or three cab voyages, "gharry," I should have said, before I got the best part of ours to the Taj Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
"gharry," and drove to Emmerson's Hotel, near the Esplanade. From Wordnik.com. [On the Equator] Reference
I picked them up and went back to the waiting gharry. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
In fact, I hired a local gharry and was driven back to lines. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
Whenever the gharry thrashed over the tram-lines, she closed her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
They could not find a taxi, so they took a gharry, a horsedrawn open carriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
He is a king compared with a rickshaw puller or a gharry pony, but his case is analogous. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
Siddhartha rose from the floor of the gharry, dirty and dishevelled, but with a new burning flame in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] Reference
Huddled safe back in the royal gharry, distraught he looked up and asked Chandaka about the old men he had seen. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] Reference
He was carried high above the ground in a grand open golden gharry that was guided by his life-time assistant Chandaka. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] Reference
From time to time she would find the Muslim household oppressive, so she would bring me here in a gharry and tell me about. From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
He stumbled back to the gharry, blindly walking through a thousand tentative hands that stretched to brush his royal presence. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] 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
Rightly calculating that it would thus take him several hours to cover the mile that separated him from the docks, he hailed a gharry. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Sea]
Uncomprehending, he asked Chandaka to stop the gharry, and he climbed out and went to investigate, with Chandaka silent, following behind. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] Reference
Under the Greek porch of No. 10, Middleton street, in the white sunlight between the shadows of the stucco pillars, stood a flagrant ticca-gharry. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
The resulting casualties were extraordinarily few, but it was hair-raising to see -- as we often did -- a mounted man, or a gharry with its pair of mules and. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
Through the engineered crowds of people generally no older than 29, which thronged the gharry on all sides, filled the whole main street, and packed all the adjoining streets. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] Reference
Vandarn weaved recklessly through the traffic, ignoring the outraged hooting of the cars, the raised fists of the gharry drivers, and the blown whistle of an Egyptian policeman. From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
English has champac ` tree 'instead of campak, gharry. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference
In the street he found a gharry after a while and drove to his hotel. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
We built him up with pillows in the gharry, and he made an effort to say brokenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference
A gharry and another pitiful little horse take us towards the gardens and the famous waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference
He reached for the gharry-wallah with vicious flourishes of a fist as dumpy and red as a lump of raw meat. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
So he pulled the gharry to one side where we waited eagerly for a funeral that was heralded by a blast of trumpets. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
Now we pass a slow going gharry, and now two young hatless soldiers in a high dog cart pass us under the trees, downhill at. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
We got out of the gharry and clambered into dwellings airy like packing crates, or descended into places sinister like cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Falk] Reference
Started fairly early this morning for the Pagoda, and sat outside it in a gharry pulled up opposite the entrance porch and steps. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
He made no other movement, no gesture, no sign, and remained facing in the new direction after the gharry had swung out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
A ramshackle little gharry that fled round the corner in a white smother of dust. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
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