This was a low, two-wheeled, springless box of an affair, in which you sat as best you could on the boards.
By this time practice had rendered us expert in retaining our seats in the low, springless lineika; fortunately, for we were all three quarters asleep at intervals, with excess of fresh air.
But we did not repent, since our conduct had secured for us that novel ride and a touch of our coveted "experience," in spite of the strain of our thirty hours' vigil and the jolts of the springless vehicle.
In the foreground is the chariot of the general, driven at headlong speed, the Horses at full gallop, and the springless chariot leaping off the ground as the Horses bound along.
The chief distinction of the Horse seemed to lie in its use for riding or driving, the larger and heavier animals being naturally required for drawing the weighty springless chariots.
One of the carts was appropriated to the use of Gabriele and her servant; but the former soon declared that she preferred to walk; the springless cart made riding anything but comfortable.
What a promised haven of rest after travelling for days in springless carts, happily through some of the most beautiful and interesting parts of Finland.
Suffocated with heat and dust, we were ourselves bumping along in a springless kärra, when our attention was first arrested by--what?
Individually, we thought it a ramshackle old chaise, but further acquaintance with the springless native carts made us look back at that victoria as if it were the Lord Mayor's Coach!
We were each provided with a ticket calling for a seat in the saddle or on a bench in a springless wagon.
The ranch wagon awaited us; a huge springless affair, or if it had springs they were of that aggravating stiffness that adds insult to injury.
The woman and children were stiff and sore from the jolts of the springless wagon as it bumped over huge rocks, or suddenly slid into wide ruts made by washouts.
At last the carts were run to earth standing outside the hospital in a line--ten little springless carts in charge of a stupid-looking corporal who had misunderstood his orders.
At Angora he was ill, but the Turks considered him fit enough to travel, and sent him on in a springless country cart over the 140 miles of rough road to Kastamuni.
These were the days before the Mesopotamian Commission--springless carts were all that were available and a number of wounded must have been literally bumped to death over those eight rough miles back to Lajj.
They trot in bullock coaches or draw the springless and uncomfortable but delightfully picturesque native rath or canopied ox-cart, the wagons of the Government commissariat and of the various Government baggage services.
The Old Hundred was then sung, and when its last notes had died on the night air the springless cart went jolting down the path.
They drove in the open springless car in which he had brought down the oaten cake and ale.
When they got to Ballamona, Thorkell Mylrea bustled Hommy-beg into the square springless car, and told him to drive to Andreas, and fetch the Archdeacon without an hour's delay.
It was not surprising that some of the soldiers were already dead when they were taken out of the rough, springless wagons.
Seated in jolting, springless Pekin carts that laboured heavily through the deep mire, we had driven from the hotel through miles of dismal, squalid streets.
Along the road came the heavy springless waggons piled high with booty, their negro drivers flourishing their long whips and repeating their vociferous bark of "Eigh" to encourage the small, contumacious mules.
Although Godfrey had not minded the shaking of the springless vehicle for the first stage or two, he felt long before he reached the journey's end as if every bone was dislocated.
He was glad, however, when he arrived at Nertchinsk, for the jolting of the springless vehicle was very trying.
His rigid legs, however, never lost the stirrups, but came down regularly, accentuating her springless hops.
She shot suddenly into the air, coming down again on perfectly stiff legs with a springless jolt.
But if he was alive the next morning he would be put in those horrible springless carts, and jolted, jolted down to the station, taken out and transferred to a shaky, vibrating train, carrying him far away into Germany.
And the springless wagons jolted away over the rough road, and fortunately we had our bad cases to occupy our thoughts.
Carreton, a heavy two-wheeled springless cart drawn by a carabao.
But as it was, I came into Peking in the traditional style, feet foremost in a springless cart, holding on hard to either side.
The crowd there was too great to try to press through; so I climbed into the cart once more, and thus entered Peking comme il faut, in a springless cart.
Our luggage accompanied us in a springless waggon, which, like the carriage, was privately horsed.
It was between these points that we travelled for the first time in a brichka, or springless posting cart.
The springless troika bumped heavily on the projecting slabs of massive boulders, embedded in the fairway.
Two or three miles farther down the road Reuben was holding in his horse, in order to cross a river, when he thought that, in the comparative silence of his springless wagon, he heard Robbie speaking behind him.
She could not remember to have heard the rattle of the springless cart as it was being driven off.
It wasspringless and without seats, and had a long pole to which two horses were fastened, and Estanislao, mounted on one, would thrash them into a gallop and carry the thing bounding over the roadless plain.
As they were then paved the streets must have been the noisiest in the world, on account of the immense numbers of big springless carts in them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "springless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
