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Carriage in sentence

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"She carried me here from the carriage," said the Prince, "saying that she was a Rajput of good blood."
A single trooper, two hundred yards or more in the rear, lifted his voice in a deferential shout as 'he pursued the carriage.
A child whom Tarvin had never before seen stood upright in the back of the carriage, and hurled a torrent of abuse in the vernacular at the outpaced trooper.
Say, Prince, how fast do you think your carriage can go?""As fast as Miss Kate dares."
"You won't be afraid to walk in under the arch with me?""I trust you, Nick," she answered simply, getting out of the carriage.
But there, as he was alighting from his horse at the gate of the Jolly Miller, without anyone--host, waiter, or hostler--coming to hold his stirrup or take his horse, d’Artagnan spied, though an open window on the ground floor, a gentleman, well-made and of good carriage, although of rather a stern countenance, talking with two persons who appeared to listen to him with respect.
D’Artagnan, half stupefied, without his doublet, and with his head bound up in a linen cloth, arose then, and urged by the host, began to descend the stairs; but on arriving at the kitchen, the first thing he saw was his antagonist talking calmly at the step of a heavy carriage, drawn by two large Norman horses.
His interlocutor, whose head appeared through the carriage window, was a woman of from twenty to two-and-twenty years.
"In all probability he has," replied the valet, "for I saw the horses harnessed to his Eminence’s carriage this morning, and when I asked where he was going, they told me, ’To St. Germain.’"
The noble carriage of this gentleman, for whom he believed himself to be engaged, had won Planchet--that was the name of the Picard.
"Oh, certainly; he is a noble of very lofty carriage, black hair, swarthy complexion, piercing eye, white teeth, and has a scar on his temple."
"This niece comes sometimes to see her uncle; and by chance was there yesterday at the same time that I was, and it was my duty to offer to conduct her to her carriage."
She has a carriage, then, this niece of the doctor?"
"’--will you enter this carriage, and that without offering the least resistance, without making the least noise?’""He took you for Buckingham!" cried d’Artagnan.
Her carriage was that of a queen or a goddess; her eyes, which cast the brilliancy of emeralds, were perfectly beautiful, and yet were at the same time full of sweetness and majesty.
"I suspect," said he, "a tall, dark man, of lofty carriage, who has the air of a great lord.
He passed along the same corridor as before, crossed one court, then a second side of a building; at length, at the gate of the entrance court he found a carriage surrounded by four guards on horseback.
They made him enter this carriage, the officer placed himself by his side, the door was locked, and they were left in a rolling prison.
The carriage was put in motion as slowly as a funeral car.
He thought the carriage was about to stop there.
The carriage, however, passed on.
But when he saw the carriage take the way to La Greve, when he perceived the pointed roof of the Hotel de Ville, and the carriage passed under the arcade, he believed it was over with him.
Indeed, the carriage crossed the fatal spot without stopping.
There remained, then, no other place to fear but the Traitor’s Cross; the carriage was taking the direct road to it.
When he was within twenty paces of it, he heard a noise of people and the carriage stopped.
The carriage, which had been stopped for a minute, resumed its way, passed through the crowd, threaded the Rue St. Honore, turned into the Rue des Bons Enfants, and stopped before a low door.
The black horses of the Musketeers, their martial carriage, with the regimental step of these noble companions of the soldier, would have betrayed the most strict incognito.
Besides, the wheels of a carriage, which appeared to have come from Paris, had made a deep impression in the soft earth, which did not extend beyond the pavilion, but turned again toward Paris.
In the shadow was a carriage with two horses, and some saddlehorses.
The three men brought the carriage up quietly, and took out of it a little man, stout, short, elderly, and commonly dressed in clothes of a dark color, who ascended the ladder very carefully, looked suspiciously in at the window of the pavilion, came down as quietly as he had gone up, and whispered, ’It is she!’Immediately, he who had spoken to me approached the door of the pavilion, opened it with a key he had in his hand, closed the door and disappeared, while at the same time the other two men ascended the ladder.
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