Cape cart
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Soon after breakfast the Cape cart was inspanned.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
The little schoolmaster was seated at breakfast when the Cape cart clattered noisily up the sunny street, and Lawless, descending from it, entered the hotel.
From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills
Van Bleit and Denzil on their arrival hired a Cape cart from the town and drove the twenty miles across the veld.
From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills
The column was off in ten minutes, and chased Ackerman for the remainder of the day, capturing his Cape cart, eighty horses and twenty-five rifles.
From Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Moulin, Louis Eug?ne du
Those forming the relief party laughed good-naturedly among themselves as they noted how uncommonly close to the Cape cart Dick Selmes would persist in riding, some of the younger ones with a tinge of envy.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
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