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Definition of Tallyhos
1. tallyho [v] - See also: tallyho
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tallyhos
Literary usage of Tallyhos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of the by Reau Campbell (1909)
"STAGES—The Yellowstone Park Transportation Company operates tallyhos and ...
The wheel equipment of all the companies consists of the great tallyhos of the ..."
2. Perjury for pay: An Exposé of the Methods and Criminal Cunning of the Modern by Willis Percival King (1906)
"... and line up forty deep and a half mile long, to see the rich New Yorkers on
their tallyhos crack their whips and move off—a dozen or more in line, ..."
3. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"For their sake at no sacrifice Does my devoted spirit quail ; I give their horses
exercise; As ballast on their yachts I sail. Upon their tallyhos I ride ..."
4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"I dare say most of us have had experience of the extinct " fast coaches," the "
Wonders," " Tag- lionis," and " tallyhos," of other days. ..."
5. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1908)
"... automobiles and tallyhos, and trips all too few to the Exposition, which
sparkled like a great, beautiful gem in the most exquisite of settings. ..."
6. The book of were-wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)
"... rheumatism or gout conceives himself to be formed of china or glass, and the
foxhunter tallyhos ! at each new moon, as though he were following a pack. ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1868)
"They are quiet enough till the tallyhos begin in the tent after Mr. Fox's speech,
and then they send up an answering cheer. Some simple-minded visitors ..."
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