Six tumbrels carry the day's wine to la guillotine.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Six tumbrels roll along the streets.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Achilles himself, they say, got tired of eating, and though he consumed something like a prize ox to his own cheek, he at length had to call for cheese, so that we at last gave in, and having cleared away the broken tumbrels and baggage-carts of our army, cleared for a general action.
"Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2)"
Charles Lever