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  • Without the slightest provocation from me, with nothing passing him at the time but a pony-chaise driven by an old lady, he started in one instant from a state of sluggish depression to a state of frantic high spirits.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • Your mother-inlaw had the carriage; and your mother sent for the pony-chaise.

    The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

  • Even in his ruin, Walker, the director of three companies, and the owner of the splendid pony-chaise, was to these simple persons an awful character; and when mentioned they talked with a great deal of gravity of his being in the country, and hoped Mrs. Captain W. had good news of him.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • The Ribbons opened an account at the Mudbury Branch Savings Bank; the Ribbons drove to church, monopolising the pony-chaise, which was for the use of the servants at the Hall.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • We showed him our modest rural lions; we got him such sport and company as our quiet neighbourhood afforded, we gave him fishing in the Brawl, and Laura in her pony-chaise drove him to

    The Newcomes 2006

  • At the back, however, and above the road which Cheeseman travelled in his pony-chaise, was a range of rooms still fit to dwell in, though poorly furnished, and floored with stone.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • And then she got into the pony-chaise, and drove herself home.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • Limmeridge House, it was past ten, and the night was so dark that I could hardly see my way to the pony-chaise which Mr. Fairlie had ordered to be in waiting for me.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • She drove very badly, and they went by quiet by-streets to escape the main traffic: the pony-chaise wobbled at random from one side of the road to the other, obstacles looming up only just in time for Godmother to see them.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • Were you drunk when I saw you off in the pony-chaise on that Saturday evening?

    The Moonstone 2003

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