After that I never asked questions, but I always knew what had happened when I picked up very comfortable equipages at very reasonable rates in places which were between gas lanterns and near theatres and so forth.
A part of the Bois is roped off, and an entrance fee is charged for all sight-seers and equipages passing the barriers.
They have been made expressly for the dashing four-horse equipages that are continually traversing it.
For more than a fortnight the town is thronged with officers of all ranks, and elegant equipages with four horses, that give the streets and promenades an unusually gay appearance.
We had no difficulty in distinguishing the numerous promenaders that filled the alleys of the boulevard, and we heard the noise of the droshkys and four-horse equipages that rolled in every direction.
It was just the hour when all London is abroad, and Piccadilly was one long cavalcade of splendid equipages on their way to the park.
Off from this hall, to the right and left, lay the galleries of antique and modern paintings, and the latter were crowded with the fair and fashionable mistresses of the equipages without.
There is an old picture of the great queen riding in one of her new equipages on some state occasion.
Modern tourists in China cannot see quite such wonderfulequipages as this, but the Emperor's state palanquin, which was still in use in 1880, was a very gorgeous affair, and it was carried by no less than sixteen bearers.
Our repast and our council over, we hurried to the Prado, where a brilliant string of equipages was moving along in two files.
I passed half-an-hour after dinner in one of the balconies, gazing upon the variety of equipages which were rattling along.
Very proud and egotistical, she herself had begun to regret her marriage, for she had formerly considered herself a real beauty, worthy of the palaces and equipages of some Prince Charming.
But the chief attraction in the afternoon is the drive along its great carriage roads, to view the numerous equipages of every nationality and description that frequent them.
Many times this programme had been varied, when at last equipages began to pass on the road above.
There was a vista in the park avenue which afforded a fair look at equipages three minutes before they could reach Mr. Evringham's gateway.
The gentlemen who, before the revolution, had been entitled to seats in the royal equipages, still retained this privilege, but the doors of these equipages were never opened to the gentlemen of the new Napoleonic nobility.
With the exception of the splendid vehicle in which the three consuls rode, and which was drawn by the six grays presented by the Emperor of Austria, there were but few good equipages to be seen.
The equipages and the imperial court had taken position in the forest of Nemours.
The young civilian held in his hand a newspaper, which however he did not read, his attention being entirely devoted to the promenade and the many handsome equipages with their fair occupants that were perpetually rolling past.
Here the equipages of many of the ministers were standing,--a privilege accorded to them above the other guests.
A tide of population poured across the bridges and down the streets, along which equipages and horsemen dashed impetuously onward.
The ladies criticised the costumes and equipages of those who passed, and I put in a word or two now and then.
The equipagesof London are much talked of, but they exceed even description.
We soon came to the steep path, and the facility with which our singularequipages mounted was surprising.
The part beyond the gardens is the fashionable drive, and, by a saunter on horseback to the Bois de Boulogne, between four and five, on a pleasant day, one may see all the dashing equipages in Paris.
Along the road rolled the equipages and trampled the steeds of those to whom all life is a holiday.
Many of these Equipages are of the Turkish Mode, and plated with massy Silver, adorn'd with precious Stones.
New-fashioned carriages"; not equipages to ride in, but dainty formalities.
The allied monarchs alighted in the market-place, where the concourse of guards and equipages was consequently immense.
Being a winter day, there were not many going about; but we saw a number of handsome equipages with Italian horses, their long flowing tails touching the ground.
Elegant privateequipages are to be seen in Paris and other parts of France.
It was the hour when people had just come back from their promenade, and equipages were making their way at a quick trot over the hard pavement.
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