Hearse

(noun.) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle.

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• At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Standing hard by the building was a plain hearse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I tell you, he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety, and will drive you like a funeral, if you want. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• We reached Venice at eight in the evening, and entered a hearse belonging to the Grand Hotel d'Europe. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• So up we went to the second story, when we came to Richard's name in great white letters on a hearse-like panel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• That gig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• On their first introduction, omnibuses were considered absurdities, and were ridiculed as painted hearses. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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