I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my
curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.
They had been walking about the place with some of their new friends, and were just returning to the inn to dress themselves for dining with the same family, when the sound of a carriage drew them to a window, and they saw a gentleman and a lady in a
curricle driving up the street.
This was felt to be a considerable amendment; and though they all met at the Great House at rather an early breakfast hour, and set off very punctually, it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove's coach containing the four ladies, and Charles's
curricle, in which he drove Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and entering upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was very evident they would not have more than time for looking about them, before the light and warmth of the day were gone.
He drove his
curricle; he drank his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian stories, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual.
After Kalka the road wound among the hills, and we took a
curricle with half-broken ponies, which were changed every six miles.
I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a
curricle and dinners at the best taverns.
The creativity of Pakistani designers is marvelous that they designed the passenger motorcycle rickshaw commonly named the Chingchi that has eliminated the conventional Tanga (light carriage or
curricle drawn by two horses).
Barouche, Phaeton, Surrey and
Curricle are all types of what?
I can only remember that he had a Coach, a Chariot, A Chaise, a Landeau, a Landeaulet, a Phaeton, a Gig, a Whisky, an Italian Chair, a Buggy, a
Curricle and a wheelbarrow" (51).
To Mary, however, the status of having her own carriage would be just as important as the convenience; the younger Musgroves have only a
curricle (102, 113), "a light, open carriage, seating two," which must be driven by one of the two occupants (Arnold 7).
As the popularity of the velocipede increased, the design was quickly exported to England where it became known as the 'hobby horse' or 'pedestrian
curricle'.
Most notable amongst the former was the English coachmaker Denis Johnson, whose "pedestrian
curricle" was available in several versions, including a ladies' model.