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Example sentences for "chaises"

Lexicographically close words:
chairman; chairmanship; chairmen; chairs; chaise; chakra; chal; chalaza; chalcedonic; chalcedony
  1. Many voters, who had been cooped up at farm houses in the country at great expense, were brought in post chaises to the polling places.

  2. The chaises are like those of Italy, and will take on near two hundred weight of baggage.

  3. In England you know I should have had nothing to do, but to hire a couple of post-chaises from stage to stage, with two horses in each; but here the case is quite otherwise.

  4. Those who have not their own carriage must either hire chaises to perform the whole journey, or travel by way of cambiatura, which is that of changing the chaises every post, as the custom is in England.

  5. I would advise every man who travels through France to bring his own vehicle along with him, or at least to purchase one at Calais or Boulogne, where second-hand berlins and chaises may be generally had at reasonable rates.

  6. The system of changing chaises every post, common in England, but unusual abroad except in Tuscany.

  7. There was an accumulation of gigs and chaises in the yard, and a great bustle going forward in the coffee-room and about the doors of the inn.

  8. It was none of my business to attend to broken chaises or shipwrecked travellers.

  9. And at least," he added, as the first of the chaises drew up with a dash in front of the portico, "it is now too late.

  10. General rule, people don't like chaises with bullet-holes.

  11. Travellers were thirsty folk in those days, and at every inn between Falmouth and Bodmin the chaises were halted, so that the constables could refresh themselves.

  12. The late lord came to London with four post-chaises and sixteen horses: all the North Road hurried out to look at his cavalcade: the people in London streets even stopped as his procession passed them.

  13. In 1720 there were no chariots or chaises north of the Tay.

  14. In an hour you shall have travelling chaises here, Dorothy," he said.

  15. The amendment did pass, however, declaring that in future any one might furnish chaises and calashes with horses and that people letting chaises might supply horses for them at the same time.

  16. The chaises stopped at the door, which was thrown open by an outrider who knocked up the locker with his whip handle.

  17. They had but common post-chaises as any squire would have, as these travelled about without drawing the attention that a London coach would.

  18. He styles these little chaises with one horse, a one-span, or one-engine.

  19. The elderly occupants of the Tanner's Lane gigs and chaises talked exclusively upon these and other cognate topics.

  20. Yes, by seeing him come up with post chaises from Dartford.

  21. I did, by his frequently having chaises ordered from my house?

  22. Have there not been much more curious coincidences than chaises driving to the same point of destination, and the persons in the carriages leaving them there?

  23. Had you sent chaises on a similar message before?

  24. I only know Sandom by his having chaises at my house to Northfleet.

  25. How do you remember the day this happened, from Dover you are in the habit of carrying persons in chaises and four to Canterbury frequently?

  26. Post-chaises were still in favour, and less dangerous than of old.

  27. The door of these first post-chaises "was hinged at the bottom and fell forward on to a small dasher like a gentleman's cabriolet," and there was a window on either side.

  28. Calashes were now common, though precisely what the difference was between them and the two-wheel chaises I am unable to say.

  29. Soon, however, these post-chaises were built with four wheels, and resembled the ordinary private chariots of the day, though without their lavish ornamentation.

  30. From this bill, those who used the one-horse chaises certainly suffered.

  31. The post-chaises were as ubiquitous as ever.

  32. By this time all sorts of chaises and vehicles had arrived from Emberton, and Mrs. Darlington's own carriage and horses had been brought up from the stables.

  33. So the two chaises rode on, and Jonas and Rollo, in a few minutes, turned off by a narrow path that struck into the woods.

  34. The crumbs that fall from the chaises of the swarms of English that visit Paris, must have contributed to fatten this province.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.