A large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century.
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Examples for "covered wagon "
Examples for "covered wagon "
1 She came west in a covered wagon right after she was married.
2 They moved from Hayburn, Georgia in a covered wagon drawn by oxen.
3 Occasionally he meets a huge covered wagon , driver and horses sound asleep.
4 We rode in the covered wagon where they hauled the provisions.
5 Here Farmer Cordery was to be in waiting with his light tilt- covered wagon .
1 That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon .
2 The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame.
3 In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon .
4 And as they made their way thither Mr. Lincoln passed them in a Conestoga wagon drawn by six milk-white horses.
5 You saw a beat-up old Conestoga wagon or something; and you saw a thousand other things that just don't make any sense!
1 He parked under the porte cochere at the Conestoga Motel and went inside.
2 The Conestoga wains rolled in with grain and good rum.
3 The great Conestoga , with its load had yielded to the strength of the Colossus.
4 The front elevation came under that order of architecture known out West as Conestoga .
5 I was put, with eight others, in a great Conestoga wain without a cover.
1 And here and there a new automobile parked beside a prairie schooner .
2 Thirty years ago he rode a prairie schooner down into this canyon.
3 If this is not a regulation prairie schooner , I never saw one.
4 Slowly and laboriously the " prairie schooner " lumbered along the uneven route.
5 The Harrises came into possession of the Warrens' prairie schooner and drove off to the east.
1 The Nations of the West were grouped around that prairie wagon , drawn by two oxen.
2 "Undoubtedly; and consequently we must be in some vehicle, perhaps some of those long prairie wagons , or some show-caravan-
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