What is "cabriolet"

Usage examples of "cabriolet".

In the warmth of her thanks, which lasted until her postillion and mine had righted the cabriolet, she often called me her saviour, her guardian angel.

Having, therefore, left Padua at the very instant marked by fatality, I met at Oriago a cabriolet, drawn at full speed by two post-horses, containing a very pretty woman and a man wearing a German uniform.

Air cabriolets and sky gondolas, hover pavilions and skimmer pods, glided and drifted overhead, elegant and graceful.

When the horses were in the stable there was a double line of rustic conveyances along the road: carts, cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and age, tipping forward on their shafts or else tipping backward with the shafts up in the air.

When I slid the Saab into a parking slot, the place was already filling with the vehicles so loved by Southern dykes with money: apple-green Samurais, blood-red Jettas, peach Cabriolets, dignified gold Camrys, two silver Isuzu Troopers.

Loin of New York, then, and in the darkness pierced by the lanterns of cabriolets, and by the flicker of street lamps, M walked toward East Twenty-sixth Street while Adam lingered like a man at the scene of a railroad accident who has seen the bodies carted off but who is locked into place by emotions, not practical need, staring dully at the twisted metal and the bits of bloody cloth.

Approaching from less than a hundred meters away was a closed cabriolet drawn by a single black horse.

It occurred to me that the occupants of the cabriolet must by now be in a state of severe agitation, and I thought it odd that as yet they had made no appearance at the window.

Closing the door to the cabriolet with the corpses of my victims within, I wrapped the cloak about me, climbed to the drivers seat, and drove a short distance back into the wretched district I had recently vacated.

Choosing the darkest, winding street I could, I halted the cabriolet at the far end of a narrow cul de sac.

Michel, I abandoned the cabriolet and made my way to the hotel on foot.

You think of the sailors, of the old doctor driving his little cabriolet, the hood of which sways to and fro as the wheels sink into the ruts, and Cocotte neighs in the teeth of the wind.

Lord John did not ride his horse, but rather drove in a gleaming open cabriolet that he had brought from London.

Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle.

Harris paused for a few seconds while he negotiated the cabriolet over some deep ruts in the high road.