drosky

American  

[dros-kee] / ˈdrɒs ki /

noun

droskies plural

1. droshky.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• droskies
  plural

Example Sentences

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drosky droskies

She decided to let him find his child with her, particularly as the weather was raw and it did not seem advisable to put Frances, who was feverish from weeping, into a damp drosky again.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul

There is still an hour, for both are coming to Elberthal—an hour of unalloyed delight; then”—he snapped his fingers—“a drosky, an address, a crack of the whip, and ade!”

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

I wish the drosky would never move on!

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Even the rough and ready drosky drivers say of him that he has been thrust among rulers like a pestle among spoons.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

He merely sat on his drosky as cool as a cucumber.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

In the holidays they drove about together in droskies, and told fortunes: Kseniya Ippolytovna was presented with a waxen cradle.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

Numberless and numbered droskies were darting through the streets, carrying gayly dressed officers making their ceremonious calls.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace

Sleepily we said our last good-byes to the family, took our seats in the droskies, and soon the Hospitalnayah Ulitza was lost to sight.

From From Plotzk to Boston by Zangwill, Israel

The legal charge for conveyance in droskies is as moderate as is their accommodation, but a foreigner is always charged three or four times the regular fare.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray

For that purpose they hired all the gigs, droskies, cabs, or "machines," about a fortnight beforehand.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel