How To Use Phaeton In A Sentence
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There were bailees, the two wheeled bullock carts with bright canopies, and palkees, and there were graceful English phaetons or buggies, drawn by well groomed Arab steeds.
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Although provincial acting is not of the high class which conceals the art, this man's look beside him and behind him at vacant seats had incontestable evidence in support of his declaration, that the lady and gentleman had gone on by themselves: the phaeton was a box of flown birds.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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It was a 1937 Cord Phaeton convertible.
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And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
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It may be briefly defined as a phaeton without springs.
Russia
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For, despite its size, the Phaeton fairly skims along the highway, cornering smoothly, accelerating in an instant and slowing to a halt in another.
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When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
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Sir Sedley Clarendel drove his own phaeton; but instead of joining them, according to the condition which occasioned the treaty, cantered away his ponies from the very first stage, and left word, where he changed horses, that he should proceed to the hotel upon the
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Will you use the Phaeton to swat Gladstone's shells from the air?
ANTI-ICE
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[3972] Magna petis Phaeton et quae non viribus istis, &c., as James and John, the sons of Zebedee, did ask they knew not what: nescis temerarie nescis; thou dost, as another Suffenus, overween thyself; thou art wise in thine own conceit, but in other more mature judgment altogether unfit to manage such a business.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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On entering the banker's mansion , they perceived the phaeton and servant of M. Andrea Cavalcanti.
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Originally, the launch of the phlebotomized Phaeton was planned for an autumn release, but a look at the sales charts made Wolfsburg rush the car to China.
The Truth About Cars
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Only after a footman helped her into the drop-front phaeton outside did he look down at what he held in his hand.
The Lightkeeper
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Our phaeton was a small, white, swan-shaped carriage, ornamented with golden designs, and propelled by a galvanic battery in the graceful swan-head, which at my request took the place of the ordinary steed.
Strange Visitors
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Phaeton, son of Helios and Clymene, was allowed to drive the Chariot of the Sun for a day.
ANTI-ICE
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With her black hair braided up under a close-fitting cap and her tall form muffled in a many-caped cloak such as coachmen wore, the Princess was sufficiently anonymous at the reins of her unmarked phaeton.
The Silicon Mage
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There's still nothing to suggest my phaeton was tampered with, but, given these other two episodes, I'm inclined to think she may be right.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Near the Serpentine, he became aware of a smart green and yellow phaeton stopped ahead of him.
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max
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The phaeton was a very handsome affair; the horses arched their necks and lifted up their legs as if they knew they belonged to Doctors 'Commons.
David Copperfield
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While she yet stood holding his arm a phaeton sped towards the station-entrance, where, in ascending the slope to the door, the horse suddenly jibbed.
Two on a Tower
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On entering the banker's mansion , they perceived the phaeton and servant of M. Andrea Cavalcanti.
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh rode to the parade in a Victorian phaeton pulled by two grey geldings.
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A woman, in a plum coloured riding habit, on a spirited black mare, was talking to the phaeton's driver.
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They were both silent as they returned to the phaeton for the drive across the park.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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If you think this is no more than a VW Phaeton with twin turbos and a longer wheelbase, you're missing the point.
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There are plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages - rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement.
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There have been reports that the caterpillars of the butterfly Euphydryes phaeton feed on the foliage of various beardtongues, but this does not appear to be the case in Illinois.
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The phaeton was a very handsome affair; the horses arched their necks and lifted up their legs as if they knew they belonged to
David Copperfield
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Will you use the Phaeton to swat Gladstone's shells from the air?
ANTI-ICE
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As Mr Crummles had a strange four – legged animal in the inn stables, which he called a pony, and a vehicle of unknown design, on which he bestowed the appellation of a four – wheeled phaeton, Nicholas proceeded on his journey next morning with greater ease than he had expected: the manager and himself occupying the front seat: and the Master
Nicholas Nickleby
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She is perfectly amiable, and often drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton.
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I mean to destroy the Phaeton, and in this act of atonement to hasten the removal of the anti-ice curse from Earth.
ANTI-ICE
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Isn't that pretty nearly what people call a cloudburst, uncle Phaeton?" asked Bruno, curiously watching that receding mass of what from their present standpoint looked like vapour.
The Lost City
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Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
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And he stretched out a ringed hand smelling of dogskin — he had driven himself round in his phaeton.
On Forsyte 'Change
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The phaeton was a very handsome affair; the horses arched their necks and lifted up their legs as if they knew they belonged to Doctors Commons.
XXVI. I Fall into Captivity
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And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
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When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
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The little basket-carriage in which Nina made her excursions, and which courtesy called a phaeton, would scarcely have been taken as a model at
Lord Kilgobbin
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{350} into the quillet that _his_ thunderbolt had stopped the chariot of the Sun and knocked the Greenwich Phaeton off the box, is the same which betrayed him into yet grander error -- which deserves the full word,
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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Never mind what I say about my distress, and my phaeton, and my ponies; 'tis only to torment Dennel, who trembles at parting with half-a-crown for half an hour; or else, now and then, to set other people
Camilla
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The tropic-bird, often called the boatswain, or phaëton, also climbs to great heights, and is seldom found out of these latitudes.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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The meteor display, known as the Geminid meteor shower because it appears to radiate from near the star Castor in the constellation Gemini, is thought to be the result of debris cast off from an asteroid-like object called 3200 Phaeton.
News Channel 9: Local News
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max
