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Significados de Conestoga wagon en inglés

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.

Uso de Conestoga wagon en inglés
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That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon.
The Anubis Gates
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The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame.
Swan Song
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In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
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And as they made their way thither Mr. Lincoln passed them in a Conestoga wagon drawn by six milk-white horses.
The Crisis — Volume 03
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You saw a beat-up old Conestoga wagon or something; and you saw a thousand other things that just don't make any sense!
Swan Song
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In another he saw a flying creature as big as a Conestoga wagon fold its wings and plummet earthward like a hawk.
The talisman
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On the building's roof was a full-sized old Conestoga wagon, and printed in big red letters on the wagon's side was PAWPAW'S.
Swan Song
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There were two classes of Conestoga wagons and wagoners.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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They were kids when their two families started West over the big prairies in Conestoga wagons.
The Hunted Woman
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Goods from Philadelphia and Baltimore were hauled in great Conestoga wagons drawn by four and six horses across the mountains to Pittsburg.
A School History of the United States
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A history of Ireland in 100 objects: Conestoga wagons were first made by German immigrants in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1730s.
The Irish Times