| 单词 | perambulator |
| 例句 | “I think I will get this for Mother,” said Jane, pushing a small doll’s perambulator which, she felt sure, her Mother had always wanted. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She gave the perambulator a little twist with her hand and it turned a corner and drew up suddenly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly Mary Poppins turned and faced him, one hand on the handle of the perambulator. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “Oh, oh!” cried Jane, shivering with cold and surprise, and she rushed to cover the Twins with their perambulator rug. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z And she took the sausages and turned the perambulator round very quickly, and wheeled it out of the shop in such a way that the Butcher knew he had mortally offended her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z It was as thick around its girth as a perambulator. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran to the perambulator and rocked it gently, crooking her thin, twisted, old fingers at John and Barbara until they stopped crying and began to laugh. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “Speak for yourself,” she said crossly, and flounced to the door, pushing the perambulator so fiercely that it bumped into a bag of oysters. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Poppins laid a firm hand on the handle of the perambulator. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Mary Poppins pulled the perambulator up with a jerk, in case Andrew, in his wild flight, should upset it and the Twins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “I hate being good,” he said aloud to himself, as he trailed after Mary Poppins and Jane and the perambulator on the afternoon walk to the Park. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z There was a small dark doorway between the windows, and through this Mary Poppins propelled the perambulator while Jane and Michael followed at her heels. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Sniffing gently, he tied up the parcel and dropped it into the perambulator. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Mary Poppins gazed up and down the street as if deep in thought, and then, suddenly making up her mind, she snapped: “Fishmonger!” and turned the perambulator in at the shop next to the Butcher’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z But San Francisco coaxed out my inner perambulator. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z She beckons me over to look at a 19th-century perambulator, its fittings designed to resemble coiling snakes, the creatures that appear on the Duke of Devonshire’s family crest. 'Do you have any ectoplasm? Is it vaginal?' The return of punk artist Linder 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The word “perambulator” originally applied to the person pushing the vehicles, but it was quickly conflated with the conveyances themselves. Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z If he ever winds up testifying, we will have to wheel him in in a perambulator, so young and helpless will he have become. Opinion | A 39-year-old man is mysteriously still a ‘kid’ 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Why, they are the children who fall out of their perambulators when their nurses are looking the other way. The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie 2012-05-22T15:16:50.277Z But he had not yet bought the perambulator. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z I have to keep the toy perambulator in repair, and when Rose falls on her nose, I have to get her face replaced. Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:33.287Z One student is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen, while another is punished for having sketched a perambulator. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z These carriages are never kept in a coach-house, but are usually placed in the halls, and often even in the dining-room, as a child’s perambulator might with us. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z As she emerged into the road she met Bertie, who clapped his hands, and sprung out of his perambulator before Hannah's vigilant eye perceived him. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Did people hire perambulators, or buy them right out? Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Bob declared that although he drew the line at pushing the Black babies' perambulators, yet he was perfectly willing to act as Miss Mary's escort whenever desired. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z We’ll drape cheesecloth around him for a dress and he can play on a quilt on the floor—I mean the ground—instead of being taken for a ride by his nurse in a perambulator.” The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z There were boys on tri-cycles, and there were Little Mothers pushing perambulators in which babies lay asleep. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z It seems a child and a perambulator were blown off the other day, and strange to say nothing was hurt, neither child nor perambulator—only the nurse had hysterics. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z "We shall have perambulators waiting in the lobby before we know where we are," he said, bitterly. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z He littered up the hall with his children and his children's perambulators and hobby-horses, just where we all had to stumble over them to get in or out. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z The next will be twelve, and after that they'll be coming in perambulators. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z I ran hither and thither like a madman, along the back street and about the grounds, hacking my shins against a perambulator, and at last sank upon a frigid garden seat, breathless and exhausted. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Then the procession passed on, and Emily resumed her journey with the perambulator. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z For the third time he ignored Washington Square swarming with lumbering green busses and dusky-haired Italian babies; puppies, perambulators, and pedestrians. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z His wife, neatly dressed and with head down, wheels a perambulator beside him. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z We made a new track across the paddock with our goings and comings, the home-returning before nursery tea being usually a family procession, led by the baby's perambulator. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z The Chancellor of the Exchequer will, in his annual Budget, propose a tax upon one or more of the following articles:—calling cards, dolls, pins, perambulators, umbrellas, and wigs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z The bull-terrier—and he was no small weight either—made a spring for the perambulator. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z The continued use of such material, however, or the daily use of either models or photographs, weakens the pupil, even as a child is weakened by being kept too long in a perambulator. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Inside the perambulator is a child of three years or so. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Oh, and there's Mrs. Pearcey wheeling the perambulator—it's the very perambulator! Voces Populi 2011-10-04T02:00:20.280Z Such victims of circumstances, on a rather different level, made husbands who stopped at home and cleaned the knives and took the babies out in the perambulator. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z She left the perambulator where it was for a few minutes, till she should run back and make the little purchase. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z The street was gay with flying motors, and long bars of sunshine slanted across the grass of the park, where groups of negro nurses gossiped drowsily beside empty perambulators. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z The mother turns to the perambulator and seeks to hide her face as she hurries with her little charges along the platform and through the gate. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Some of the poor people are riding; some follow a cart; some push perambulators. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z The carriages were babies' perambulators, drawn by a tandem team of brown-skinned men, wearing a single garment each, and umbrella hats. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z That day then, when Emily took her little brother out in his far from elegant perambulator, she heard the sound of a band. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z The perambulator, perhaps, was now a nobler and a sadder treasure than any it contained. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z My black nurse was driving my little girl, about eighteen months or so old, in her perambulator in the garden. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z And do hire a perambulator with a hood. Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z The rock wallabies are soft and woolly and often of a pretty bluish tone, and make moderately useful carriage rugs and perambulator aprons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The perambulator, with the child in it, laughing and blinking in the sunshine, stood right in the track of danger. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Dicky set his back to the shop, and sidled to within reach of the perambulator. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Children's chairs are made so that the seat may be raised or lowered, or the chair converted into a perambulator. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z His horse was eyeing a perambulator strangely, and there was no space for antics. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z It is quite inexpensive and only suitable for cheap rough coats, carriage rugs, perambulator aprons and linings for footbags. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z People shrieked as they saw the girl at the perambulator. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z A nurse-girl had left a perambulator at a shop door, while she bought inside, and on the perambulator lay loose a little skin rug, from under which a little fat leg stuck and waved aloft. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z “She would, as you say, look thoroughly at home in the Park—with a perambulator and a soldier,” he added to himself. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Who would have thought that the baby that had been brought here for a little fresh air would have turned blue in the perambulator! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 2011-06-29T02:00:26.507Z Their fur is pretty, warm and as yet inexpensive, and is useful for rugs, coat linings, stoles, muffs, trimmings and perambulator aprons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "And this morning," said Ingeborg, smiling at him, but only with a passing smile on her way to all the other things she wanted to look at, "you said I suggested perambulators." The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z I saw a father wheeling his baby in a perambulator, with the sun blazing straight into its blinking eyes. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z But Master Hal, hadn't you better put your boots in the perambulator? Little Miss Peggy Only a Nursery Story 2011-05-03T02:00:18.093Z The perambulator rampant adorns the Hollister shield to the exclusion of everything else. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z They are excellent for trimmings of evening mantles and for children’s ties, muffs and perambulator aprons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "Why," she said, "this morning I'm perambulators and only last night, quite late last night, I was the peace of God." The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z In this way rubber tubing, perambulator tyres, and such articles, may be made. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z Then there was a structure like a magnified perambulator, of which one wheel was afflicted with a chronic propensity for squeaking, while the other described a curious serpentine track as it rolled along. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z It represented an infant in a perambulator, behind which stood the effigy of a capped and aproned nurse. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z So it came to pass that she and the vicar, accompanied by a nurse wheeling a perambulator, came to the White House with Martin’s letter. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Empty were those hundreds of deserted motor cars, heaped in great weird, pathetic piles down at the water's edge, as useless as though they were perambulators, because there were no chauffeurs to drive them. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Gone for a brief time were the itinerant musicians, the innumerable perambulators, the ogling flappers with their cheap silk stockings and misshapen legs, the retired colonels eking out a grumbling living on infinitesimal pensions. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The forms which were used in the schoolroom he also made, as well as tables, chairs, our boots, and his own, a little carriage for the smaller children, and later on a perambulator. The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] 2010-12-21T22:55:56.210Z He was so torn up over his two failures that he blew in his share of the perambulator money in riotous living. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z By 16, I was teaching in my own dojo in the perambulator room at the projects, you know, where the baby strollers and bicycles were kept. Experience Necessary: A Sensei Brings Karate to Harlem Youth 2010-05-13T04:10:00Z The shop was a miniature Whiteley's, embracing everything from a perambulator to a parachute, and it was odd to watch the incongruity of some of the articles distributed. The Gay Adventure A Romance It was impossible to imagine a nursemaid lolling over a perambulator in Clapperton Street. Sinister Street, vol. 2 She would sing, too, of the ride in the perambulator and of the ladies who paid her compliments as she passed. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I was certainly a little absent-minded all the afternoon, and as we walked to Nymphenburg, our children pushed along in the perambulator by the maid, failed to get up any very animated conversation. Barbarossa and Other Tales "If I were to figure things the same way, I would suggest that the next time you come to Elba Beach you use an automobile perambulator instead of a bicycle.—Now let's call it quits." The Bachelors A Novel In perambulators we saw wailing children with mangled or missing hands. The Black Watch A Record in Action The reply of Frances was a heartfelt one as to the perambulator, but discouraging in regard to the garment. A Top-Floor Idyl It seemed also that for years the neighbourhood had known of Nurse's habits, had even seen her on two occasions upset Stella's perambulator. Sinister Street, vol. 1 And it visits the gaol as readily as the music-hall, and attends us in our hearse no less than in our perambulator. The Book of This and That Bronx apartment houses, with perambulators and imitation marble columns in the down-stairs foyer, are built for his destiny. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole For instance: Alongside one perambulator with a wounded child in it rolled another one loaded with huge rings of bread, on top of which perched a parrot, screaming at every one who passed. The Black Watch A Record in Action Edie fell down and became involved with the wheels of the perambulator. Carnival Alan indicated an empty perambulator standing outside one of the houses. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The ducks whirred up from the pool, the people shrieked, as we scattered perambulators, nursemaids, and children, flying like leaves upon the wind. Sir Hilton's Sin We have seen scores of infants on the streets, in the suburbs, on the plains outside, in arms, and in perambulators, and they all looked thriving, pink, and happy. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal "Few things are as unlike a cornet in the Life Guards as a child in a perambulator—" "Very well, all that," interrupted Lord Culduff, impatiently. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Mrs. Raeburn plucked her daughter from the perambulator, shook her severely, and said: "You bad, naughty girl," several times in succession. Carnival "But there isn't," said H. O., "if you mean in the perambulator." The Wouldbegoods They are grown-up baby perambulators upon two wheels; the driver sitting up behind, where the handle would be, and drawing the reins of interminable length over the top of the vehicle. An American Girl Abroad It's my baby niece, yawning in her perambulator. Loyal to the School Moira, in her eighth month, walked to the county library every day and trundled a load of books home in the perambulator. Special Delivery The perambulator bumped over the loose stones, but young Frank, sleeping admirably, never stirred; while his rosy cheeks danced with ripples of light shaken down through the young-leafed elms. Carnival "Blow you and your perambulator," said Oswald, with gloomy forbearance. The Wouldbegoods He had got hold of the remains of an old perambulator which his father had brought home, and was busy mending it, for the little ones to ride in. Ditte: Girl Alive! She had always adored babies and could rarely pass one in a perambulator without wanting to kiss it and know all its little history. Banked Fires The machinery which propels this exaggerated perambulator, is run by electric power. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century No. Was she bound to tilt a perambulator? Carnival If they did steal the Baby," Noël went on, "they will be tracked by the lordly perambulator. The Wouldbegoods "How did you happen to stumble on our deep-sea perambulator?" The Deaves Affair It was the hour popularly believed to be the best in the twenty-four, which accounted for Mrs. Meredith's ayah wheeling the baby through the dusty lanes, in a magnificent perambulator, "to eat the air." Banked Fires George got married, and on Sunday afternoons could be seen wheeling an infant in a perambulator along the street. Orientations She would sit in the perambulator staring solemnly at Ruby, and only opening her eyes a little wider when she was bumped down to take a crossing and up to regain the pavement. Carnival "Then it was you," Dicky said, "who scuttled the perambulator in the wood?" The Wouldbegoods The contrast between the splendor of Cinderella's carriage in the story and the old perambulator which has to serve in the charade only adds to the fun. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes I am so tired of the abominable trains that an aeroplane or a perambulator would be a relief, and the road to Montclair was full of interest. My Impressions of America “You must have commenced to live in your perambulator,” she declared. The Moving Finger Children solemnly holding paper windmills to catch the breeze were wheeled along in mail-carts and perambulators. Carnival How the people stared and turned round when they saw the handsome perambulator--no, the beautiful child. The Son of His Mother A well-trained and amiable elephant, again, would enable parents to dispense with a perambulator. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 The other day I met him in his perambulator. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 One sultry evening in August he was walking in the country, and noticed a perambulator with a white figure, which he took to be that of a remarkably tall nursemaid, bending over it. Byways of Ghost-Land It was excruciating duty, with the raven-haired Rose wheeling her perambulator along the opposite way and keeping, by way of feminine perversity, on a latitudinal line with the patrolling of Michael Phelan. Officer 666 The twins have each a nurse, and each a perambulator; but when they are good they are permitted to crowd themselves into one perambulator, as a special treat. A Great Man A Frolic The child was brought up in a perambulator which had at first been pushed by the under-nurse, an Italian, and accompanied by the upper-nurse, who was of course an Italian also. Is He Popenjoy? Consider the baby in the perambulator, absorbed in contemplating the heavens and sucking its own thumb. Another Sheaf A faint, sickly sound of sucking caused my friend to start forward with an exclamation of horror, and as he did so, the phantasm glided away from the perambulator and disappeared among the trees. Byways of Ghost-Land The mother who has given her child his bath and sent him in his perambulator to the park has not fulfilled the mission of the “mother of humanity.” Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Of course Nanny knew nothing of this; she was rather exhausted, and had stopped for a moment, perambulator in hand, to speak to a friend. What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps Wonder whether the policeman, the postman, the nurse with the perambulator, the young lady reading the novel, and the deck passengers on the passing steamboat are laughing at me. Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling A grand piano, and a perambulator tied in a knot were trying to get down through a coal chute. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went As nobody of a more suspicious character than an errand boy and a nurse girl with a perambulator was in sight, she began to congratulate herself that she had escaped unobserved. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life Dickie whispered to Mr. Beale and climbed out of the perambulator. Harding's luck "I am jolly well not going to sit on the back seat of a dog-cart if I can help it; I would rather go about in a perambulator," I said. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Note.—We can also fit this marvellous Little Spring to perambulators, bath-chairs, and bathing machines. Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling On the lawn a lady was sitting in a basket chair beside a perambulator, the occupant of which was slumbering peacefully. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman Mr. Aston effected a skilful pass between a donkey cart and two perambulators. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker From some mysterious source Mr. Beale had obtained an old double perambulator, which must have been made, Dickie thought, for very fat twins, it was so broad and roomy. Harding's luck Patsy stopped but once—to trundle a perambulator laden with washing and twins for its small conductor, a mite of a girl who looked almost too frail to breast the weight of a doll’s carriage. Seven Miles to Arden At another ebony female who advanced along the sidewalk pushing a white baby in a perambulator she tossed her head. The Dop Doctor So she went into the road, but that was full of dust and perambulators. The Magic World Even the poorest women, one sees pass in the afternoon with perambulators in which sleeps some little urchin who, mayhap, is brought up nearly all on the charity of saving people like me. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story Dickie asked, pointing to the odd knobbly bundles of all sorts and shapes tied on to the perambulator's front. Harding's luck When articulate thinking was possible she remarked, acridly, “Ye need a baby nurse to mind ye, Patricia O’Connell; and I’m not sure but ye need a perambulator as well.” Seven Miles to Arden There was a child in a rusty double perambulator that had been a stylish baby-carriage only a little while ago, whose wizened face and shrunken hands were pitiable to see. The Dop Doctor This bonny little garden Is fine for perambulators, Where our handsome servant-lasses Can wheel our lovely creatures, And oh! how happy they will be! Revised Edition of Poems But by and by, lurching free, he wobbled across the road to within an inch of a perambulator with two children which another man was pushing. Change in the Village The tale of Hereward the Wake lasted till the jolting perambulator came to anchor in a hollow place among thick furze bushes. Harding's luck The form "bassinet" is used for the hooded wicker cradle or perambulator for babies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The nurse, sitting on a hillock of bents in dutiful nearness to the perambulator, has taken out her paper-covered volume, and is deep in a story of blood and woe. The Dop Doctor A crowd of high-class babies, also bedizened and spangled, follows in perambulators wreathed with flowers, and pushed by their Chinese nurses. Through the Malay Archipelago For instance, I could not help listening to a woman who was pushing her baby in a perambulator down the hill. Change in the Village Beale, without more words, made room for him in the crowded perambulator, and they went on. Harding's luck And no sooner had she lifted the perambulator over the step, than the dog did come again, exactly as if he had been lying in wait for them ever since outside the gate. The Talking Horse And Other Tales The nurse, with a squawk of relief, leaves her perambulator bogged in the sand, flutters up the powdery rise like some large species of seagull, squawks again, and swoops to retrieve her lost charge. The Dop Doctor Yet who now can look squarely at the present, except officials, armament shareholders, and those in perambulators? Waiting for Daylight The Park was dotted in every direction with shining perambulators, propelled by smart nurses in uniform, and tenanted by proud little people, fair-haired and rosy, and extremely cheerful. Captain Jim "I mean along that temporary passage, which would admit a small perambulator." Jonah and Co. A woman with a perambulator, making up her mind at just the wrong moment to cross the road, found herself almost under the feet of the Fox-Moore horses. The Convert I see them pass in their perambulators, dear little things.' Peterkin "You may, precious, and grandma will make you one," said Mrs. Pendleton, as she helped Marthy wheel the perambulator over the slippery crossing and into the front gate. Virginia An occasional group of somewhat grubby children, generally accompanied by an elder sister and a baby in a perambulator, now and again occupied a seat. Antony Gray,—Gardener Mr. Trew gazed for a few moments at a baby in a perambulator. Love at Paddington Seeming to search in vain for some excuse to linger, Miss Levering's wandering eye fell upon a young mother wheeling a perambulator. The Convert Babies can't walk, they just get carried about and put in perambulators. Happy Days After perhaps fifteen miles we were at last approaching open country; at least Suburbia and perambulators had been left behind; and truck-gardens and market-wagons, often with sleepy drivers, had entered on the scene. The Automobilist Abroad I can talk to them now if I want to, and even wheel their perambulators. Antony Gray,—Gardener Every morning about nine o'clock, now that summer was come, you found him in the garden, in his perambulator, barefooted and bareheaded, taking the air before the sun had power. The Creators A Comedy Patty said to Ethel that she felt as if she were in a perambulator, except that she wasn’t strapped in. Patty's Summer Days We have had a fire here, but our people put it out before the parish-engine arrived, like a drivelling perambulator, with the beadle in it, like an imbecile baby. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Giant wheels, hurdy-gurdies, and quack photographers are banished from its beach and esplanade, and one may stroll undisturbed by anything but perambulators and bath-chairs. The Automobilist Abroad But it would have been so infinitely nicer to wheel a very dirty baby in a very ramshackle perambulator when I was eight. Antony Gray,—Gardener Without a word he turned and followed, thoughtfully, the windings of the exiled perambulator. The Creators A Comedy An old gentleman was strolling along very slowly, and Selina Ellen, never looking where she was going, pushed her perambulator into him from behind. The Children's Book of London A little way behind was Madame V�drine pushing a perambulator, in which was a laughing little girl, born since their visit to Touraine. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 You know we really must settle what we are to do about those two children that Belinda's got to wheel on in the double perambulator. Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 But once, as this division was passing, one of those little go-carts on perambulator wheels in which the men, holding drag-ropes, transport their own personal belongings, upset a few books. Old Junk This time she was alone, and she still trundled the perambulator in front of her. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France It took the old gentleman right off his legs, whereupon he sat down backwards on to the perambulator, baby and all! The Children's Book of London There was no one near them, no one indeed in sight, except a nursemaid who wheeled a perambulator along one of the paths, but she sunk her voice to something near a whisper. In the Mayor's Parlour When we get the perambulator and the babies, it's bound to go. Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 She was lying in a perambulator which was being pushed by a governess. Marguerite By her side sauntered the traitorous Angel, his head bent toward her tenderly, and, most sickening of all, pushing before him, with an air of proprietorship, the perambulator containing the doll, Dorothea. Explorers of the Dawn The girls stood watching as Lizzie trundled the long perambulator away, then packed their basket and set off towards Brackenfield, for it was time for Marjorie and Dona to return to school. A Patriotic Schoolgirl To different children there is, of course, a different childhood; but, as a rule, the happiness of childhood is a delusion, and the peace of the perambulator a myth. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In the garden at the entrance to one house was a baby taking the air in a perambulator and a band of eight p. 123musicians with a conductor. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions They counted on pushing you out of the way as easily as if you were a baby in a perambulator. A Son of the Immortals Hence what was our astonishment and chagrin to see one morning, from our schoolroom window, a chit of a girl, smaller than myself, strutting up and down the Bishop's garden, pushing a doll's perambulator. Explorers of the Dawn Lizzie looked just the same—rosy, good-natured, and untidy as ever—but it was a very etherealized Eric who lay in the perambulator. A Patriotic Schoolgirl Here was a woman with three tiny children, two of them in a dilapidated perambulator, the other she carried in her arms. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship No wheeled traffic is now to be seen; everything is on runners, from the carriage of the King to the doll’s perambulator. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Max and Muffie would have been amazed to know that the little red tricycle on the verandah, and the doll’s perambulator overturned on a path, were assisting a celebrated man to this vague emotion. In the Mist of the Mountains Half-grown girls lolled on the handles of perambulators to listen, while their charges pulled faces of fear at the supple Anita. Explorers of the Dawn As she stood waiting for them she heard the sound of voices and footsteps, and round the corner came a girl, wheeling a long perambulator with a child in it. A Patriotic Schoolgirl When he had been taken tenderly for an "airing" by the trimmest of nursemaids, and in the daintiest of perambulators. An Australian Lassie In either case it consists of two narrow strips of lawn bisected by a well-kept perambulator drive. Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 "Poor Dahlia, she'll be frightened when she sees the perambulator gone." Once a Week I even recollect her insisting upon my wheeling her perambulator once when I was a schoolboy, and naturally resented such an indignity. Lalage's Lovers "I know who the fairies are!" laughed Eric, as his perambulator moved away. A Patriotic Schoolgirl With his foot he drew the perambulator a little nearer to him. Old Valentines A Love Story Misunderstood by the crowd was Mrs. Trudge, who wheeled a perambulator containing two babies. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 I gripped the perambulator, took a last look round, and then suddenly rushed it across the drive and down a side path, not stopping until we were well concealed from the house. Once a Week Reaching the park, she wheeled the perambulator under the shade of a great tree, and sitting down herself on a bench, took little Angus in her arms. How It All Came Round They sat down and waited, thinking that the long perambulator had probably been wheeled into Whitecliffe, and had not yet returned. A Patriotic Schoolgirl Do I think his perambulator gets damp in the basement store-room? The Lady of the Basement Flat They graced the grey rock beside him one big figure and a little figure or two in clay skirts, also a quaint version of a perambulator. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Myra pinned a flower in my coat and forgave me, and we walked off together with the perambulator. Once a Week At last a very small nurse appeared, wheeling a perambulator, while two children ran by her side. How It All Came Round In the foreground was a long perambulator holding a little boy propped up with pillows. A Patriotic Schoolgirl A pleasant-faced woman who might be Mrs. Middleton, though she did not look like an invalid, sat on the veranda entertaining a little girl with a big baby in a perambulator. Elsie Marley, Honey Had it been permitted, the beach would have been crowded as usual with invalids, nursemaids, and perambulators. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell As Matthew Arnold said of the remarks of the Young Man from the Country about the perambulator, they are felt not to be at the heart of the situation. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The baby in the shabby perambulator was very beautiful. How It All Came Round They could not forget his pale, wistful face among the parcels in the long perambulator. A Patriotic Schoolgirl And they had a new perambulator and had given the old one to the Howes, which would make it easier for little Mattie. Elsie Marley, Honey Soft, pulpy babies asleep in perambulators, the sun shining straight into their faces. A Book of Burlesques An old and wrinkled nurse, in a turban like a red tulip, made room for them, moving aside a perambulator holding a sleeping babe. The Long Roll Now she doubles up her perambulator with her children in it, but she never doubled up him. Much Darker Days Two large soap boxes, knocked together, had been placed on old perambulator wheels, and in this roughly fashioned chariot, on a bundle of straw and an old shawl, reclined a little, thin, white-faced girl. The Princess of the School The Act proceeds without any further hitch, until Belinda wheels on her double perambulator containing two red-headed infants, one of whom is terrified into tears and calls for "Father!" in a shrill voice. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 They may be let fall, or capsized in perambulators. Papers on Health With them were their charges, in perambulators, or, if older, flitting like white butterflies over the slopes of grass. The Long Roll I followed them up last night, unbeknown to them, to see would he get out of the perambulator when he was clear of the town and nobody to notice him. Priscilla's Spies Even the pale beings in enlarged perambulators, pulled solemnly to and fro by their aged fellow-beings, were triumphant. Clayhanger “Well, my dear, she has twins; she brought them here once in a perambulator.” Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls A nurse was wheeling a perambulator along the pavement, a milkman’s cart was making slow progress from door to door, a telegraph-boy was sauntering down the middle of the road whistling a popular air. More about Pixie A nursemaid wheeled a perambulator on the opposite pavement, while a little white-robed figure trotted at her side, tossing a ball in the air. A Houseful of Girls And, by the way, I must go at once and get a perambulator, and feeding-bottles, and all that sort of thing. A Dog with a Bad Name Edwin had already rushed for the perambulator, an ancient vehicle which was sometimes used in the garden for infant Benbows. Clayhanger "I ain't a baby, nor a perambulator neither, to be pushed about by you." Archie's Mistake I’ve seen three perambulators already, to say nothing of the butcher’s cart! More about Pixie And I assure you it wrenched the imagination to see tidy nursemaids wheeling perambulators and children playing diavolo on the very square where Bloody Sunday had gone into history. A Preface to Politics A nursemaid draws out her perambulator from under the trees and hastens with it and its wailing occupant nursery-wards. A Dog with a Bad Name In a few moments Trafalgar Road had the spectacle of the bearded and eminent master-printer, Edwin Clayhanger, steaming up its muddy pavement behind a perambulator with a grown boy therein. Clayhanger A Pedometer is an instrument cunningly devised to tell you how far and how fast you walk, and is, quoth the Doctor, a "perambulator in miniature." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 "Ayleesabet"—everybody adopted her own pronunciation—was napping in Dicky's old perambulator on the porch of Dorothy's cottage one Saturday morning early in December. Ethel Morton's Holidays However, they still persisted in coming back and carrying away beds, tables, mirrors and chairs in all sorts of queer conveyances, barrows, perambulators and light spring-carts drawn by strong intelligent dogs. The Red Horizon He talks about cheese, boots, perambulators, and how people are really to live. George Bernard Shaw One Norwegian war-whoop and away she galloped, the perambulator before her, as it was not in the mind of the Vikingess to desert her duty. Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters He had to be carried around in a perambulator. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World They were as inconsistent, as a man who sees nothing unreasonable in circulating ascetic opinions and a perambulator at the same time. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View But there was a child; people had seen him wheeled about in a perambulator. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World "No doubt you'd have wanted to wheel them out in the perambulator!" Swirling Waters Slowly driven coupés, with their elderly passengers, crawled along the road, and the wet-nurses pushed their perambulators. A Mummer's Tale A place was reserved in the bow for the Count's perambulator. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World "We might have borrowed a perambulator," said Belle, quite seriously, "and have packed all our luggage into it." A Popular Schoolgirl "Carry that child to its perambulator," shouted the Eagle Man. Suzanna Stirs the Fire There are no perambulators here to-day," said the King, "so you needn't think about measles. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties A mother pushing a perambulator containing several small children, whilst five or six others were hanging on to her dress or trotting along around her. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry They were out at present, with Captain Sand, in the perambulator—not having more servants than they could help. Hilda A Story of Calcutta A few straggling foot-passengers, an occasional trap, a man on a bicycle, and some children pushing a perambulator, showed them they were drawing near their goal. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs In the well-to-do classes this is readily accomplished by the aid of a nurse and the use of a perambulator. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. To counteract these evils were such associations as the one he had the honor to address, select tea meetings, fancy bazaars, and perambulators. Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings His time was now principally devoted to inventions; he received a silver medal in 1768 from the Society of Arts for a perambulator, as he calls it, an instrument for measuring land. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir Mrs. Sand and her apartment, her children out of doors in the perambulator, and the whole organisation to which she appertained, had grown oppressive and unnecessary. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Lydia tucked the still hectically staring doll in beside her small sister, turned the perambulator around and ran it along one of the little paths to the sidewalk. Lydia of the Pines And at that moment the nurse came, wheeling the baby in the perambulator through the hall, going out for an airing. Mike Fletcher A Novel Edward would only promise to agree to the disafforestments recommended by the perambulators, if the estates would assure him that he could do so, without violating his coronation oath or disinheriting his crown. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) I have already given the changed use of the word perambulator. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir In the main street I saw a perambulator, stuffed with human young. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Lydia looked from the cherub in the perambulator, crowing ecstatically over the red bubble that tugged at her wrist, to the defiant Margery. Lydia of the Pines "How sweet of you to come all that way," was all she said, and it was a sufficient reward for the hours in the train and the six hundred minutes among the nursemaids and perambulators. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Stepping backward, he lifted the front wheels, and with Lily's help pulled the perambulator on to the little porch and over the threshold into the house—which always shone with immaculate neatness and ugly comfort. The Vehement Flame This is a curious instance of the changed use of a word, as we now associate perambulators with babies. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir Gently, and with infinite motherly precautions, he removed little Alice from the perambulator and lifted her to the trapeze. His Masterpiece Lydia opened the gate in the picket fence and tugged the perambulator through and up to the porch. Lydia of the Pines There Barbara wheeled the perambulator with the two children in it along the shore, and more than once the Veyergangs were flattered by the exclamations of passers-by: "What a fine-looking nurse!" One of Life's Slaves As for Mr. Curtis, I no more thought of protectin' him than I would think of protectin' a baby in a perambulator from its nursemaid! The Vehement Flame "It's early; it's shockingly early, but I came up with Desmond this morning and knowing your habits—you do still wheel your own perambulator on the Heath, don't you, at eleven-thirty?—I rushed here first." Married Life The True Romance Your mother could buy your layette from him, and your cradle, soothing-syrup, perambulator, and toys; she could hire your nurse at Hugo's. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes She stood on the porch, watching Lydia arrange Florence Dombey in her place in the perambulator. Lydia of the Pines As he rose wearily from the wicker rocking chair beside the empty perambulator, she felt as if he were a stranger. One Man in His Time I had to hire a little girl from across the street," she said, "to take him out in the perambulator, or else I couldn't 'tend to my cooking. The Vehement Flame You ask for a perambulator as if it were a sixpenny-ha'penny toy! Married Life The True Romance But the voyage to the East was one too many for "the ingenious perambulator," and he died of a flux at Surat in December, 1617. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary At last, as the August noon waxed high, and the hostage princess fell fast asleep in her perambulator cave, the cannibal, who had shifted to captured duke, bowed before the pirate. Lydia of the Pines As they reached the porch, he laid aside his paper, and rose with his hand still on the perambulator. One Man in His Time She removed her sister from the perambulator and staggered back in a sitting posture with suddenness and force. New Faces And she had thought more than once how beautiful it would be to own one, sitting in its well-built perambulator with the clean white lacy covers and cushions, and the starched nurse primly wheeling it. Married Life The True Romance Everything on wheels, from wagons to perambulators, was being piled up. Out To Win The Story of America in France With a swing light and agile as a young monkey, Lydia let herself down, landing with a spring of which an acrobat might have boasted, beside the perambulator. Lydia of the Pines "Carn't say, sir, unless we go in a couple of them perambulators." The Honorable Percival By the time the bower was finished and the perambulator ready for its customary occupant that young person was in a position to claim heavy damages. New Faces So she and George trundled the shabby grey perambulator, Rokeby's gift, across the Heath, and along the intervening streets to Grannie Amber's. Married Life The True Romance There was a little shouting, and Jenny, staring hard into the roadway, thought she could see as its cause a small girl pushing a perambulator loaded with bundles of washing. Nocturne Lydia ran the perambulator along the board walk. Lydia of the Pines He was a "perambulator," and, in the words of one of his critics, "picked up information on the highway, and scattered it everywhere as authentic." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Carefully she rearranged the floral decorations of the perambulator, and set her elastic understudy in erratic motion. New Faces They left the perambulator in the courtyard and made a slow journey up the stairs to her nice flat on the first floor. Married Life The True Romance That kid who was wheeling the perambulator full of washing…. Nocturne He untied a stout cord from his handle-bars and proceeded to fasten it from his saddle post to the perambulator. Lydia of the Pines Perhaps of all its symbols the most typical and popular are: a nursemaid, a perambulator enclosing twins, and a gigantic dragoon. Prose Fancies The shy, quick-darting creature—half child and half humming bird—was forced to drag that monstrous perambulator on all her expeditions. New Faces They wouldn't have babies in boarding-houses; they wouldn't like her keeping the perambulator there, and wheeling it through the hall; likewise they wouldn't like her intruding into the back regions with it. Married Life The True Romance There was every variety of opinion in the common rooms, and every variety of perambulators in the parks. The Life of Froude Coming toward the three children seated in the sand by the perambulator was a thin bent old woman, leaning on a stick. Lydia of the Pines Whenever his eye lighted upon a toddling child or a perambulator it visibly brightened. A Wanderer in Holland Next time, they will send out the youthful Jiro in a perambulator.” The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate Then she put on the children's outdoor things, established the baby and the three-year-old at either end of the perambulator and, with George walking manfully by her side, set out upon an errand. Married Life The True Romance They told him to take this perambulator home to his father and show him what a beautiful present they had made. The Altar Steps He set the perambulator inside the fence, then balanced the dining-room table on his head and started up the path to the door. Lydia of the Pines When he saw babies in perambulators, he would have liked to kiss them. The Devil's Garden On the porches, too, groups were assembled in chairs after the Southern fashion, while children, in white frocks and gay sashes, accompanied by negro nurses wheeling perambulators, made a spring pageant in the parks. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Such a perambulator Marie had never hoped for, nor dreamed of; it boasted every luxury of contrivance, from the umbrella basket, slung to the handles, to its C-springs and its big, smooth-rolling tyres. Married Life The True Romance Well, a lot of kind people clubbed together and bought a new perambulator, bigger than the other and more comfortable. The Altar Steps She strapped Patience into the perambulator, then ran up to the house. Lydia of the Pines After the car two timber wagons crept slowly, and then there were children trailing a broken perambulator; but directly the road became vacant again, he leaned against a gate and opened the envelope. The Devil's Garden "Or you might run over to the Goelets', and borrow their baby's perambulator," continued that segment of the Spanish Inquisition. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him That reminded her that they had something else to buy, a big thing that would swallow up nearly, or quite, a week of Osborn's pay, a perambulator. Married Life The True Romance The perambulator is our Mission here in Lima Street. The Altar Steps Margery was teased out of the boat and assisted into the perambulator, with her dripping white legs dangling helplessly over the end. Lydia of the Pines He begged constantly, in his peculiar, abbreviated language, for the beach and the ocean, with especial earnestness whenever he was taken for a promenade in his perambulator. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Edward takes his daily walks in his perambulator upon the sea-front of his native town. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 At two o'clock inexorable routine ordains that he must again be placed in the perambulator and wheeled forth on a fresh expedition. The Nervous Child Gifts of coal, blankets, linen, perambulators, toys, pictures, &c., are greatly valued, and subscriptions and donations will be gladly received by the hon. treasurer. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically Patience was established in her perambulator with her linen picture book. Lydia of the Pines He was at his happiest when his perambulator was pushed to the edge of the water so that the waves flowed about the wheels. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 But at length he felt obliged to return them, and remarked to Kate, who propels the perambulator, "Seems friendly like;" to which Kate replied, "Oh, he always waves to everyone." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 It is often considered enough that the child seated in his perambulator should take the air for three or four hours daily, while much of his time indoors as well is devoted to sitting. The Nervous Child Convalescent soldiers limped about on crutches; babies were wheeled in perambulators in the sun; a group of young aviators in black leather costumes watched a French biplane flying low. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Lydia trundled the heavy perambulator with some difficulty along the path. Lydia of the Pines Nurses, some in the white caps of their native province, others with the satin streamers of the nounou, marched sedately two by two, wheeling perambulators and talking. The Magician The word went round day by day as to his health; he was watched when he came out in his perambulator, and there was gossip as to his appearance and behaviour. The Golden Scarecrow Hence the supreme importance of the doll and the doll's perambulator. The Nervous Child Dear friend, already I see you pushing the perambulator! The Dangerous Age Kitty fled over the lawn to meet the child's perambulator. The Marriage of William Ashe If Sandy had announced his intention of putting on baby clothes and being wheeled in a perambulator, Ricks could not have been more astonished. Sandy The Teddy perambulator was moored against the cocoanut shy, and Aunt Wilshire was still displaying her terrible prowess at the cocoanuts. Mr. Britling Sees It Through He has been out in his perambulator half the morning, and for the other half has been deep in his midday sleep. The Nervous Child The car went far over familiar streets that she had first seen from a perambulator. V. V.'s Eyes It is as though a huge locomotive engine were brought out to draw a child's perambulator, or as though an Armstrong gun were loaded and levelled to exterminate a tom-tit. The Bed-Book of Happiness A baby was wheeled by in a perambulator and the wheels squeaked on the damp sand. The Darling and Other Stories The ball missed the legs of the lady with the noble nose by a kind of miracle, hit and glanced off the wheel of the perambulator, and went spinning into a border of antirrhinums. Mr. Britling Sees It Through He rushed into the corridor, and met the procession—May, the perambulator, and the nursemaid. Tales of the Five Towns She had a large, clumsy chest on the frame of an old perambulator, in which she wheeled about her store of aerated waters, toffee, and newspapers. Women of the Country A few evenings ago I trusted him to wheel the perambulator about the garden-paths, but, becoming anxious in a very few minutes to know what he was about, I went to look for him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 As the bargain proceeded, the front door opened, and a nurse-maid appeared with the twins in their perambulator. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor His eye rested on the perambulator; he leant a little nearer to the ear.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through May exclaimed, 'the perambulator will go into the lift, after all. Tales of the Five Towns That Nursery-maid with the three children and the perambulator will certainly get run over by the train if she stands there gossiping with the man in the signal-box. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 "Our housemaid's called Ethel, and so is the little girl that wheels the gardener's baby's perambulator," was Robin's impetuous comment. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight I ought to be in a perambulator, with a nurse shoving me along. Back to Methuselah Letty was away changing; she reappeared jauntily taking leave, disregarding the baby absolutely, and Teddy departed bigamously, wheeling the perambulator between the two sisters into the hazes of the moonlight. Mr. Britling Sees It Through The tableau of May, elegant as ever, but her eyes brighter and her body more leniently 238 curved, of the hooded perambulator, and of the fluffy-white nursemaid behind—it was too much for him. Tales of the Five Towns I supported the Government in their proposal to tax perambulators! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 Aloud she said, "You could have sent Joyce round with it"—Joyce being that gardener whose baby's perambulator was wheeled by another Ethel—"and need not have interrupted your work." The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight And then young Georgie arrived, with his insatiable appetites and his vociferous need of doctors, nurses, perambulators, nurseries, and lacy garments. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories And Mr. Direck saw the perambulator waiting—the mysterious perambulator—a little in the dark beyond the front door. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Touching clumsily the apron of the perambulator, the stockbroker turned into his doorway. Tales of the Five Towns We measured at first with a perambulator from the house at Buree; but this got out of order, upon which Mr. Larmer, with the chain and circumferenter, continued the measurement. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 All ladies were agreeable, all babies in perambulators were darlings. The Price of Love Then Mr Duncalf, the Town Clerk, went by, from his private office, towards the Town Hall, and saw the singular spectacle of the public man and the perambulator. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories Teddy, who was back in his flannels, seized upon the perambulator. Mr. Britling Sees It Through One or two young females with perambulators come hurrying across the grass, exhorting apathetic babies to sit up and admire the pretty funeral. The First Hundred Thousand But a pity they couldn't get the real perambulator! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 True, she had no perambulator, but middle-aged ladies greeted her with wistfulness in their voices and in their eyes. The Price of Love And as, nearly opposite that celebrated hotel, the Tiger, he was about to cross over to the eastern porch of the Town Hall, he saw a golden-haired man approaching him with a perambulator. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories Directly in its line of flight was the perambulator. Mr. Britling Sees It Through A woman, whose hair caught the sunlight like copper, avoided the flood and tilted a perambulator on its two rear wheels down the wooden steps of her veranda. Every Soul Hath Its Song G.J. was ashamed of the innocence he had displayed, and ashamed, too, of the whole Metropolitan Police Force, admirable though it was in stopping traffic for a perambulator to cross the road. The Pretty Lady Imagine those kids with the perambulator and the doll's perambulator—imagine them in an earthquake! The Roll-Call Then the occupant of the perambulator began to weep. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories Maisie screamed, and pushed an expensive doll out of the perambulator. The Regent In the shallow heart of the perambulator, the high froth of pillows about him, he lay like a bud, his soft profile against the lace, and his skin like the innermost petal of a rose. Every Soul Hath Its Song The perambulator simply kept the body of Bradley under the water. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot The rickshaws were a pleasant experience, the one-man perambulators; and the costume of the rickshaw-runners was delightful, and their gnarled, indefatigable legs. Kimono I never could understand why the perambulator was there, as the Markovitches had no children. The Secret City Suddenly Edward Henry halted the perambulator, and, stepping away from it, raised his hat. The Regent They pushed the wheels of their perambulators against your legs, without even apologizing. Against the Grain Nearer and nearer drew the clanking noise and presently a whole regiment of perambulators, four abreast, swung around the corner into the moonlight. My Home in the Field of Honor The field paths are the trodden tops of the irrigating cuts, and the main roads as wide as two perambulators abreast. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) He glared at every person he passed, and ran into perambulators. Tommy and Grizel However, he had to stick grimly to the perambulator. The Regent His workmates put it down to the alleged fact that a careless nurse had let him fall out of the perambulator on to his head. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 In one small bower I saw a child's perambulator, where two wax dolls sat staring up at the abandoned house. The Soul of the War She was walkin' up an' down the lawn with the infant in a perambulator, an' the small boy toddling along behind her. Keeping up with Lizzie The remainder of your stay in Palestine would be about as exciting as pushing a perambulator in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Carts, wheelbarrows, perambulators, and in fact any vehicle which could be rolled along, were piled to overflowing with household goods. A Surgeon in Belgium That was my presentation to a perambulator, for which a coach-house had been discovered in a corner down-stairs, just large enough to hold it. The Uncommercial Traveller They had entered all the abandoned houses, and had found some evil pleasure in smashing chairs and tables and lampshades and babies' perambulators, and the cheap but precious ornaments of little homes. The Soul of the War A few weeks later, through the elaborate investigations of the Metropolitan police, the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. The Importance of Being Earnest You can disguise a baby in rags and walnut juice, but there isn't any disguise dark enough to conceal a perambulator's person.' The Wouldbegoods A baby in a perambulator could learn to tick off orders for its bottle. The Shuttle All the alleys were thronged with promenaders and obstructed by perambulators; and Miss Mellins's running commentary threw a glare of lurid possibilities over the placid family groups and their romping progeny. Bunner Sisters They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. Peter Pan On the morning of the day you mention, a day that is for ever branded on my memory, I prepared as usual to take the baby out in its perambulator. The Importance of Being Earnest The nurse had turned and was pushing her perambulator hurriedly up the hill again. The Poison Belt Then nursemaids with perambulators pass, followed by a lady in expensive garments, who talks volubly to her two pretty daughters. Yorkshire They says that Selma pushed the perambulator with her little brother in here where the strange girl an' her friend came an' took him an' carried him off. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Children's voices floated to us from the waterside as though from very far away, the nursemaids and perambulators seemed tinged with unreality, the London towers were clouds, its roar the roar of waves. The Centaur Some of them led small children by the hand; others pushed perambulators containing white robed infants being taken to or from the nurseries for their scheduled stays in the mothers' individual apartments. City of Endless Night She had taken the baby from the perambulator, and it was a motionless bundle of wraps in her arms. The Poison Belt A bouncing youngster leaned out of its perambulator to dance its arms. Star-Dust I pushed the perambulator over into the room here. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II She says that the unfortunate baby used to be dragged about in a kind of caged perambulator, and that some of her nurses were female detectives in disguise, with revolvers under their white aprons. It Happened in Egypt If I couldn't shape better than that I'd hire myself out to wheel a perambulator. Traffics and Discoveries The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill. The Poison Belt A white nurse passed them, tilting a white perambulator down a flight of white stone stairs. Star-Dust Well, I deposit this offering, which is a fire-proof bank, next to the perambulator of this excellent offspring of the mason, with the wish that he will rise to be at least a royal architect. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II The President must have secured his inspiration from the manner in which the cartoonists always pictured the Brooklyn man, behind the perambulator. New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission Nursemaids, bound for the parks, wheeled their perambulators into strategic positions, thus commanding a clear view and blocking the edge of the pavement. The Wheel O' Fortune Lower down was a nurse girl wheeling a perambulator and leading a second child by the hand. The Poison Belt When she thought that the doll had had a sufficiently long ride, she walked round the perambulator to take it out. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 A neat new perambulator stands by her side. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II The day began to decline, the sun sank, it commenced to rustle lightly in the trees around, and the nursemaids who sat in groups near the parallel bars made ready to wheel their perambulators home. Hunger I pulled pieces of perambulator out of myself for two weeks with the hand that was not disabled. Remarks "Oh, I like to hear about other children," said Marcia, turning the perambulator round. A Modern Instance Thus, for instance, on one occasion, when the child was wheeling about her doll in her own perambulator, the writer stole away the doll without her perceiving the theft. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 In ten years many of these aesthetes will have become common Academicians, working for the villas and perambulators of numerous families. Modern Painting It was very quiet all around me; down near the Queen's arbour two nursemaids were trundling their perambulators; otherwise, there was not a creature anywhere in sight. Hunger On both sides of the straight road there were tall hedges, and the nursemaids lay in the wide shadows on the rich summer grass, their perambulators at a little distance. Esther Waters He could not be contented without pushing the perambulator out after tea, and making Marcia walk beside it, to let people see them with the baby. A Modern Instance And as before, carriages and carts went and came over, schoolgirls on bicycles, babies in perambulators, but this time there was no man on a horse. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing She put them in her handbag and somehow got round a perambulator, and the two went out on the street. Bertram Cope's Year I remember a Battersea little girl who wheeled her large baby sister stuffed into a doll's perambulator. Tremendous Trifles And when one of the babies in the perambulator began to cry, the schoolmaster lifted it out and hushed it to sleep again. Married The young man turned at the unlocking of the gate, and saw Marcia lifting the front wheels of the perambulator to get it over the steps of the pavement outside. A Modern Instance He had watched many Upper Radstowe children from the perambulator stage, and to him she remarked on the weather, as she had done to the red-faced man at the other end. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing Through its door passed tradesmen's clerks with deposits, and young housewives with babies in perambulators, and students with their small financial problems, and members of the faculty about to cash large or small checks. Bertram Cope's Year The second is that they may deliver our commands, post our letters, and escort the coming generation of Government servants in their little perambulators. Behind the Bungalow In Berzelius Park the seats which were usually occupied by the nursemaids of the rich and their charges, were crowded with the families of the labourers who had appeared in great numbers with their perambulators. Married In a white perambulator lay a pink, brown-haired, baby girl, soundly sleeping, a tiny thumb held comfortably in her mouth. The Nest Builder I dearly love to walk by the perambulator in which Love is wheeling a pair of lovers. Memoirs of My Dead Life She pulled up suddenly beside a stout, short lady in a fashionable walking dress, who was pushing an elegant perambulator with one hand, and shielding her complexion with a crimson sun-umbrella in the other. Annie Kilburn : a Novel And Mrs. Taylor soon appeared, wheeling her baby in a perambulator, with two little girls following. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs The father pushed the perambulator with the baby, the other children clung to the hands and skirts of the mother. Married I do not say that they will rise from their stalls and call loudly for their perambulators, if these qualities creep into the play, but they can get on very happily without them. If I May A neat maid in a cap pushes a garden-roller over the path, or a perambulator with a never-failing baby in it. London Films But Charity—he had loved her from perambulator days. We Can't Have Everything There should be a public or private garden available where its perambulator could stand in fine weather; and its promenades should not be too much a matter of routine. Mankind in the Making Husband and wife sat down on a seat and placed the perambulator, in which the baby lay sucking at its bottle, by their side. Married Soon afterwards that man was soundly converted, and is to-day an Army bandsman, while the elder child who was wheeled in the perambulator, is a corps cadet. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" You saw great open wagons carrying baby carriages, perambulators, pots and kettles, an old chair, huge bundles of household goods, and the ubiquitous Belgian bicycle strapped to the side. The Log of a Noncombatant When things cumbered her crib or her perambulator she brushed them into space and then repented after them. We Can't Have Everything And he plunged into High Street, lost himself in crowds of perambulators and nice womanly women who were bustling honestly about in search of food or raiment. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days With the nine pounds paid in advance by this gentleman, Hyacinth and Marion, having with them their baby, a perambulator, and much other luggage, set off for Ballymoy. Hyacinth We had just finished the Saturday night’s meeting when a little woman pushing a perambulator with two children in it, ran into the hall, asking for the Adjutant. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" "First, I must put a question or two," he said, smiling at a baby which cooed at him from the shaded depths of a passing perambulator. The Postmaster's Daughter He went to the sled and illustrated, laying his hands on the arrangement at the back that stood out like the handle behind a baby's perambulator. The Magnetic North Presumably what we hear is a perambulator backing into its stall in the passage. Alice Sit-By-The-Fire Grizzel can go for a walk with Bridget and Baby; I want a few things from the Store, and they can be brought up in the perambulator. The Happy Adventurers A perambulator is very apt to make a child stoop, and to make him both crooked and round-shouldered. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children His lordship was off in his lordship's perambulator by nine o'clock every morning. This Freedom He always has a little the look of an absent- minded nursery-maid pushing her small charges in a perambulator. Italian Hours Fulbert, instead of answering, quickened his pace to a walking run, dashed on, nearly upsetting half a dozen people, and was only checked by a collision with a perambulator. The Pillars of the House, V1 Uniformed nurses were wheeling little perambulators; others were watching active, tousled-headed little charges. A Fool There Was Again, these perambulators are dangerous in crowded thoroughfares. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Once she passed it in the hall in its perambulator. This Freedom Doesn't he come down in his seventy-two perambulator every morning the Pink Hussars parade? Soldiers Three This discussion brought the two girls across the paddock out into a road with a broad, neat footpath, where numerous little children were being exercised with nurses and perambulators. The Two Sides of the Shield Every now and then she put out a dripping hand and jerked a perambulator up and down for a moment, to calm the shrieks of the baby inside. The Solitary Summer While, on the other hand, if he be in a perambulator, he is cold and unsupported, looking the very picture of misery, seeking everywhere for test and comfort, and finding none! Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children It is curious how babies in perambulators hold out their hands to Pauline as she passes, and laugh and gurgle at her. The Professional Aunt While Bryce was in swaddling clothes, he was known only to those females of Sequoia to whom his half-breed foster mother proudly exhibited him when taking him abroad for an airing in his perambulator. The Valley of the Giants She has lived in a palace; and her perambulator was a gondola. Fanny's First Play No, if he were determined to go, she would go, too,—even if they had to load the three babies into the perambulator, and push them two or three miles to the trolley! Jimmie Higgins It was about the size of a perambulator, and contained every kind of can. The Holiday Round She may not, for instance, like any ordinary aunt, pass the baby in his perambulator, out walking. The Professional Aunt The perambulator was going through the little gate in the railing. Jacob's Room She has more than common imagination and no more than common conception and penetration; so that she is always on the high horse about words and always in the perambulator about things. Getting Married Then she wheeled away the perambulator, which now had no more value nor interest than an egg-shell. The Old Wives' Tale Ruby asked, and almost upset the perambulator which she had just dragged in at the hall door. The Way We Live Now It is only a woman who can travel with a perambulator and a bath; they are the epitome of motherhood. The Professional Aunt There's no man to help with the perambulator. Jacob's Room I staggered out of the way of the cab, avoided a perambulator by a convulsive movement, and found myself behind the hansom. The Invisible Man A perambulator was being rapidly pushed up the slope by a breathless girl. The Old Wives' Tale "Am I to work my very nails off, and push that perambulator about all day till my legs won't carry me,—and then I ain't to go out, not once in a week?" The Way We Live Now They were out at present, with Captain Sand, in the perambulator, not having more servants than they could help. The Path of a Star Gently the baby is rocked in the perambulator. Jacob's Room In the perambulator lay a boy with his mother's broad forehead, his mother's red hair. Absalom's Hair Linda and Fred had wanted this house since the Sunday walk, wheeling Pip in the perambulator, when they had first seen it. Harriet and the Piper Ruby did not like wheeling the perambulator about Islington, and being told by her aunt Pipkin to go about her work. The Way We Live Now Mrs. Sand and her apartment, her children out of doors in the perambulator, and the whole organisation to which she appertained had grown oppressive and unnecessary. The Path of a Star Half a square away she could see the Park, with gray-clad nurses chatting over their racing charges or the tops of perambulators. The Story of Julia Page "It was most thoughtful of the old gentleman to have the man call for you with the perambulator," shouted Pettingill above the laughter. Brewster's Millions I passed in a solitary road a draggled ugly woman, a tramp, wheeling an old perambulator full of dingy clothes and sordid odds and ends; she looked at me sullenly and suspiciously. The Altar Fire She took the children for an airing in a broken perambulator, nearly as far as Holloway, with exemplary care, and washed up the cups and saucers as though her mind was intent upon them. The Way We Live Now So in due state they ride him and his turreted souse to the station house in a perambulator. Europe Revised Tooni grieved deeply that she could not give him a bottle, and a coral, and a perambulator, and often wondered that he consented to thrive without these things, but the fact remains that he did. The Story of Sonny Sahib On Sunday afternoons Haskett would take her for a walk, pushing Lily ahead of them in a white enameled perambulator, and Waythorn had a vision of the people they would stop and talk to. The Descent of Man and Other Stories A moment later the gate opened slowly to admit a perambulator, propelled by the nurse and flanked by Juliet and Andora. Tales of Men and Ghosts One of the first things that was purchased was the perambulator in which 'Lizabeth was proudly wheeled to call upon her benefactor. Martie, the Unconquered A broom drifted by; a child's perambulator; a porch chair. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby The perambulator was avoided successfully by both, and they ascended the bare boards of the staircase. Demos As the carriage entered the fine, wrought-iron gates, a flock of little Breens, attached to a perambulator, two nurses and five dogs, were coming out of it; and she stopped to accost and kiss them. Sisters No material obstacle was allowed to interfere with the progress of the perambulators. American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 The sunlight flickers through the elm trees, illuminating expensive nurse-maids wheeling valuable children in little perambulators. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich A child's perambulator—a very shabby, rickety concern—had been pushed against the fence, and its occupant, a girl, evidently a cripple, was throwing corn to the eager winged creatures. Herb of Grace The party was made up of a ferret-faced man with a red nose, a draggle-tailed woman, and a child in a crazy perambulator. Huntingtower When they fall from the maternal perambulator, they briskly pick themselves up, briskly scramble up a leg and make their way to the top. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects It was impossible for anything larger than a perambulator to turn, and as the springs yielded to the uneven ground, the van bumped against the walls of the houses and threatened destruction. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 There, in a lacquered perambulator, sails past a little hooded head that controls from its cradle an entire New Jersey corporation. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich As he crossed the broad space at the foot of the steps in Lincoln's Inn, he overtook Caleb Martin wheeling the perambulator. Herb of Grace Even when the girls were not reading they nearly always ran into the ladders, which seemed to possess a magnetic attraction for perambulators and go-carts of all kinds, whether propelled by nurses or mothers. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists They were almost as good as London police—there were no areas to the houses, neither insinuating cooks or housemaids, nor even nursemaids with babies in perambulators, to distract their attention from their municipal duties. Ismailia But, as she wheeled the perambulator up and down the front walk, her mind liltingly repeated the words she had written, and she stepped along in time to the rhythm. Missy At times he stopped to permit a pink-cheeked infant in a perambulator to beat him with a rattle while he inquired its age of an episcopal nurse, gay with flowing ribbons. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich "Oh, dad, do stop," she exclaimed eagerly; "it is the gentleman what gave me my baby;" and then Malcolm stepped up to the perambulator. Herb of Grace No wheeled vehicle larger than a perambulator ever disturbs the quiet. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither There were no immoral females to disgrace the public streets; neither were there any beggars, vagrants, organ-grinders, or perambulators to worry, deafen, or upset you. Ismailia Rounding the corner of the back walk with the perambulator, she collided with the grocer-boy. Missy Young man: I come of a famous family of fighters; and as your sister well knows, you would have as much chance against me as a perambulator against your motor car. Man and Superman Kit's perambulator occupied one corner, while Kit herself, seated at the table in a high chair, was busily engaged in ironing out some ragged doll-garments with a tiny bent flat-iron. Herb of Grace I saw young mothers packing their babies and their bundles into perambulators while shells came hurtling over the thatched roofs of their cottages. Now It Can Be Told "He said children ought not to be allowed on the esplanade, because he got into the way as I was pushing the perambulator." Clever Woman of the Family For she could wheel the perambulator off to the summerhouse, in a secluded, sweet-smelling corner of the yard, and there recite poetry aloud. Missy |
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