They drove tandems in all directions, scattering their ample allowances, which they treated as pocket money, about roadside inns and Oxford taverns with open hand, and "going tick" for everything which could by possibility be booked.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
When the knights entered the lists on the seats of their dog-carts, with their squires beside them, and their shining tandems before them, they took the light well, too, and the spectacle was so brilliant that I trust my imagery may be forgiven a novelist pining for the pageantries of the past.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
"Mr. Pelham," said he, affectionately squeezing me by the hand, "your conduct has been most exemplary; you have not walked wantonly over the college grassplats, nor set your dog at the proctor-nor driven tandems by day, nor broken lamps by night-nor entered the chapel in order to display your intoxication-nor the lecture-room, in order to caricature the professors.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009