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Leaving them to look after the luggage,57 the Doctor and I got our two invalids into gharries, and drove at once to Malabar Point to stay with the Governor and Lady Reay.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

The gharries took us to various small hotels, but when once inside we were not allowed to go out again.

From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.

After a time three gharries arrived, and Mr. Innes and I went in one, the two other gentlemen in another, and Sultan Abdullah's boys in the third.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

What will, perhaps, most strike Europeans are the bullock gharries by which the heavy traffic of the town is carried on.

From Burma Peeps at Many Lands by Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot)

"Anyhow it seems a huge, stirring sort of place," he added, as he watched motors, bicycles, and gharries whirring past the entrance.

From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)