43 Metaphors for carriages

The English carriage is always the best; they understand all the details of harness and livery so much better than any one else.

But the first carriage was no Pullman car.

The carriage most used is a four-wheeled biloche, with a gig top, quite low, and drawn by two horses, on one of which is a postilion; these vehicles are exceedingly comfortable for two persons.

This idle disquisition was however speedily driven from my mind when I perceived that the carriage was Mr. Falkland's.

Carriages are but little the fashion these daysthey are being rapidly abolished along with everything else that makes life comfortable in this city.

Imbued with the theories of the army, which of all surroundings is that in which one judges most by the appearance, where a good carriage is the first condition of success, where in fact they salute the stripes and not the man, the Captain was, in presence of this handsome young fellow, recalled to less aggressive sentiments.

The carriage which he generally used was a rheda, a sort of gig, or rather curricle; for it was a four-wheeled carriage, and adapted (as we find from the imperial regulations for the public carriages, etc.) to the conveyance of about half a ton.

The carriage is a valuable piece of furniture, requiring all the care of the most delicate upholstery, with the additional disadvantage of continual exposure to the weather and to the muddy streets. 2216.

Word had been sent to Apple Orchard of her sickness, and the carriage was no doubt now upon its way to take her thither.

Don't you know that a carriage with ponies is a toy for little gentlemen?

They thought your carriage was a gun.

They also dropped into the procession, and then, as they traversed the seven miles of the high road to Croxley, their two-horsed, rosetted carriage became gradually the nucleus of a comet with a loosely radiating tail.

I expected that a city whose streets are canals and whose carriages are all boats, would present a very unique appearance, but when I once saw them, they were so exactly what I had anticipated, that I felt disgusted and left the city without doing justice even to the vast collection of paintings in the Ducal Palace, which alone is worth going a great distance to see.

The carriage was evidently a sort of triumphal chariot dedicated to the celebration of the victory, for it was loaded with hampers of champagne and violins!

Cardinal Weld's carriage was the richest, and next in magnificence was that of Cardinal Barberini.

The road, even at this early hour, was crowded with peopleCoolies, Chinamen, Negroes, and others, bringing in their produce to market, while every now and then a carriage passed by filled with well-dressed Creoles enjoying the coolness of the morning air, or bent upon making a holiday of it, for the day was Sunday.

First a carriage containing the Prophet, portly, strong-faced, easy of manner, as became a giant who felt kindly in his might.

Their carriage was the finest on the island and their horses were the best.

His carriage of himself is the wearing of his clothes, and, like the cinnamon tree, his bark is better than his body.

But if less conscious, his carriage was decidedly more confidentas of one with whom the world goes well.

A good carriage is the point aimed at (and to which I particularly refer), and the means adopted for its cultivation fail, after all, in their end, just in proportion to their rigid employment.

Route 26.By carriage viâ Campan, Ste.

The carriages are half- covered ones, with seats for two, and are drawn by a pair of mules, on one of which the driver rides.

The carriage, merged in a phalanx of carriages, rolled past innumerable splendid houses, and every house without exception was a hostel and an invitation.

Route 14.By carriage viâ Gan, Louvie-Juzon, and Laruns.

43 Metaphors for  carriages