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Quotes About Carriage

But she was radiant, and she was mine; she was as she'd always been, and I told her so silently with all my power, that she was lovely as my earliest memory of her when she had had her old fancy clothes still, and she would dress up so carefully and carry me on her lap in the carriage to church.
~ Anne Rice
was only as he passed Diana's carriage that he slowed
~ John Manning
Flush was a fellow traveller of course, and enjoyed it in the most obviously amusing manner. Never was there so good a dog in a carriage before his time! Think of Flush, too! He has a supreme contempt for trees and hills or anything of that kind, and, in the intervals of natural scenery, he drew in his head from the window and didn't consider it worth looking at; but when the population thickened, and when a village or a town was to be passed through
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The rooms at the Folkestone hotel must be large, and on the first floor. A carriage must be hired for her use while she remained; but every shilling must be saved the spending of which would not make itself apparent to the outer world. Oh, deliver us from the poverty of those who, with small means, affect a show of wealth!
~ Anthony Trollope
The two wives of the two men were in the pony carriage, and the little Lady Glencora, the Duchess's eldest daughter, was sitting between them.
~ Anthony Trollope
Unfortunately Hill House was a sad house almost from the beginning; Hugh Crain's young wife died minutes before she first was to set eyes on the house, when the carriage bringing her here overturned in the driveway.
~ Shirley Jackson
The third-class funeral is a shabby one and costs only a hundred dollars. The weather is cold and foggy. The coffin has no catafalque. There are two horses and two reverends. Not a carriage in sight.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something supernatural.
~ John William Polidori
In the near distance he could hear the trundling sound of carriage wheels starting down the gravel drive.
~ Eloisa James
Tanto valeva che non si fossero risvegliati dal loro sonno secolare – mormorò il signor Holker con un lungo sospiro, prendendo posto nello scompartimento del carrozzone.
~ Emilio Salgari
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality
~ Emily Dickinson
Siena marble. It was only as she reached it that she realised that the Marquis was standing there with his evening cape over his shoulders, obviously waiting for his carriage.
~ Barbara Cartland
For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
She had every intention of maintaining her punctilious civility, and might have done so had he not said, as he took his seat beside her in the carriage he had hired for the evening: 'I wish I had ordered a hot brick to be provided.' 'Thank you, but there was not the least need to do so: I don't feel at all cold.' 'I daresay icebergs don't feel cold either, but I do!
~ Georgette Heyer
Dear Edward has given Fanny a chocolate-coloured coach with pale blue cushions. The wheat is picked out in blue. He held the sheet at arm's length. It seems strange, but no doubt Fanny is right. I have not been in England for such a time...Ah, I beg her pardon. You will be relieved to hear, my dear Hugh, that the wheat still grows as it ever did. The wheels are picked out in blue.
~ Georgette Heyer
Mama –?' 'But of course! Outside, in my curricle.' Then he saw that she had turned perfectly white, and said: 'Don't be such a goose-cap! You can't suppose I would drive your mother-in-law thirty yards, let alone thirty miles!
~ Georgette Heyer
Lady Barbara drove herself in a phaeton, with a tiger perched up behind;
~ Georgette Heyer
The carriage was frequently halted by the mass of vehicles which made London's streets increasingly noisy and dangerous. Drivers cursed and cracked their whips, horses snorted and whinnied until they surged forward again with a rattle of wheels and a tattoo of hooves, only to meet with an immobile line of traffic at the next junction.
~ Emma Drummond
The vice-presidential carriage arrived, splattering us sternly but justly with mud.
~ Gore Vidal
A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, wrote, "People must be led out of captivity up to God. Be patterns, be examples that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
~ Shane Claiborne
While Logan sat in the carriage, Drew and the baby entered the bordello, and for the second time that night, the place went ghostly quiet. Few babies patronized Gertie's.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.
~ Gregory Maguire
Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth.
~ Gregory Maguire