Meaning of night-cart | Babel Free

Examples

“This dismal box, mounted nakedly on four frail wheels, was drawn along by a pale, lean horse, and the driver sat severe in his shirt-sleeves and tattered hat, like some desperate blackguard driving a night-cart.”

“No person shall act as night-man or drive any night-cart within the limits of the city of Grafton, unless such person be authorised so to do by the said Council.”

“And having found fault with an Egyptian policeman, who blew his whistle lustily from underneath the garbage in a night-cart into which I thrust him to teach him manners, I set out to put great distance between this hotel and me, not wishing that you sahibs should be disturbed on my account.”

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