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Definition of Tumbrils
1. tumbril [n] - See also: tumbril
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumbrils
Literary usage of Tumbrils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of by Arthur Richard Wellesley Wellington (1871)
"send into the field eight field-pieces, with their tumbrils complete, and 300
bullock-loads of musket ammunition. The Commissary of Stores at ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"... CHAPTER III THE tumbrils NEXT week, it is still but the loth of April, there
comes a new Nineteen; Chaumette, Gobel, Hubert's Widow, ..."
3. Lives of Indian Officers by John William Kaye (1889)
"When there was not a shot left in our tumbrils, he caused a gun to be drawn up and
... tumbrils ..."
4. History of the French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (1883)
"THE tumbrils. 1750. Next week, it is still but the 10th of April, there comes a
new Nineteen ... tumbrils."
5. The French Revolution: A History. In Three Volumes. by Thomas Carlyle (1837)
"THE tumbrils. NEXT week, it is still but the 10th of April, there comes a new
Nineteen; Chaumette, Gobel, Hebert's Widow, the Widow of Camille: these also ..."
6. Pole and Czech in Silesia by James Alexander Roy (1921)
"... and in the coming Revolution, despite his cosmopolitanism, he will certainly
be among the first of the aristos to be haled off in the tumbrils. ..."
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