A drosky passed, driving an old man to the railway station--there were porters at the doors of some of the houses and a few wagons going down toward the river.
I cannot believe that this is the city we saw yesterday," he declared as the Count called a drosky and bade the driver make a tour of the avenues and the gardens--"you would think the people were the happiest in the world.
The covered carriage known as a drosky is a rather lumbering vehicle on four wheels.
We did not wish to be shown everything, and so, declining the offered services of guides, engaged a drosky by the hour, with a kindly-faced young man for driver.
Reece, reece," said the excited drosky driver as he greedily accepted his handful of driver's rations.
Official Photo Loading a Droskyat Obozerskaya [Illustration: Two soldiers operating radio equiptment.
A drosky was waiting, and into this he bundled her, jumping in by her side, holding her about the waist as the driver whipped up his two horses and sped through the deserted streets of Moscow.
The drosky drove furiously through the east end of the town, and the passenger noted that the driver was careful to avoid the big thoroughfares which led to the Krasnaya Plotzad and that centre of Moscow which is the Kremlin.
Malcolm looked up and down the deserted street and then caught the eye of the solitary intooski, a thoughtful-looking man with a short, square beard, looking monstrously stout in his padded green coat, the livery of the Moscow drosky driver.
Malcolm stepped into the little drosky like a man in a dream.
The luggage was then turned out through a gateway into the clean wide road, where there stood, as eager and vociferous as any Irish carmen, ready to seize on it, a number of drosky drivers.
At the very corner of the great square he suddenly caught sight of a bare-headed man shouting lustily for the police, while a drosky (hack carriage) was just vanishing in the distance.
A drosky came dashing by, and its occupant, just as he passed, bent forward and made a snatch at the new cap.
The message I had received prompted me to take a drosky to an unfashionable little tea-shop a few doors from the entrance to the Gostinny Dvor Bazaar.
Lounging aimlessly along the streets in the hope of meeting her, I was walking one afternoon along the English Quay, when a drosky drove swiftly past, and pulled up before one of the great palaces that face the Neva.
We hired a drosky and told the driver to put in his best licks and he might expect something to get drunk on.
Illustration: 0122] We went forward as if impelled by the boot of His Brimstonic Majesty, and as the narrow drosky bounded from side to side the two passengers had hard work to hold on.
This was a drosky of the first-class, but they would not have thought it so, either from the vehicle itself, or from the appearance of the driver and his horses.
The driver of our drosky drove us over the rough cobbles so rapidly, despite the hill, that we were almost overturned.
Having secured my room, I mounted a drosky and hurried to a bath.
Riding out to the suburbs, the drosky boy stopped at a large wooden building, pouring forth steam from every chink and crevice.
EARLY the next morning I mounted a drosky and rode to a celebrated garden or springs, furnished with every description of mineral water.
I was always at a loss whether to ride or walk in St. Petersburgh; sometimes I mounted a drosky and rode up and down the Newski Perspective, merely for the sake of rolling over the wooden pavement.
I observed that it contained a noble-looking officer in a blue military cloak sitting behind his drosky driver.
The vehicle is at once their house and their bed, and if one requires a drosky he first awakens the driver, who is usually curled up asleep like a dog.
In the public squares and open places before the theatres large fires in iron enclosures are lighted and tended by the police at night, for the benefit of the drosky drivers and others necessarily exposed in the open air.
A few short reaches of the square granite-stone pavements were observed, probably laid down as an experiment; but great was the relief experienced when the drosky rolled upon them after a struggle with the cobble-stone style of pavement.
Tramways lead from the centre of the town to these popular resorts, or a droskywill take one thither at a mere trifling charge.
The droskydrivers are hired by companies who own the horses and vehicles, and receive about eight dollars per month on which to support themselves.
The drosky drivers of Moscow appear to be one degree more stupid than those of St. Petersburg, impossible as that may seem.
A chief officer of police, who was one day dashing along the Nevsky Prospect in a handsome drosky drawn by a fine pair of horses, was met by the Emperor Nicholas.
Take a drosky at once, see her, and await a reply.
The driver of your drosky will point it out to you.
I assured her I would not lose a single instant, and five minutes later I was tearing down the Morskaya in a drosky along the canal and across the Nicholas Bridge to the address upon the envelope.
I knew he would follow me, but as he was on foot, with no drosky in sight, I should be able to reach the station before he could, and there elude him.
Once, however, just when the ice was beginning to break, and the passage was difficult and rather unsafe, Ivan stayed with the Petrovitches for dinner, and came home in the evening in a droskyby a longer route.
Five minutes afterward they had mounted thedrosky to drive to Pampeln.
She decided to let him find his child with her, particularly as the weather was raw and it did not seem advisable to put Frances, who was feverish from weeping, into a damp drosky again.
When she saw the drosky roll away, she breathed more freely, and went slowly into the house.
The waving of a handkerchief and of hands from the carriage doors answered them; and the drosky rolled away.
The droskythat Fridolin has just ordered will take us in ten minutes to the stable where I hire my horses.
Julie quieted her, ordered a drosky to be called, and told the driver to drive home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drosky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
