They say of him, "He is only fit to drive a drosky."
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Tramways lead from the centre of the town to these popular resorts, or a drosky will take one thither at a mere trifling charge.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
They endeavored for some sense of Berlin society by driving home in a drosky, and on the way they passed rows of beautiful houses, in French and Italian taste, fronting the deep, damp green park from the Thiergartenstrasse, in which they were confident cultivated and delightful people lived; but they remained to the last with nothing but their unsupported conjecture.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey"
William Dean Howells