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omnibus

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omnibus: see bus bus [Lat. omnibus=for all], large public conveyance. A horse-drawn urban omnibus was introduced in Paris in 1662 by Blaise Pascal and his associates, but it remained in operation for only a few years. The omnibus reappeared c.
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The Lake Shore Railroad then ended at Ashtabula, in a bank of sand, and my elder brother and I walked up from the station, while the rest of the family, which pretty well filled the omnibus, rode.
On a west-bound omnibus Claire Fenwick sat and raged silently in the June sunshine.
Miss Twinkleton estimated the distance to the omnibus at five-and-twenty minutes' walk, when it was really five.
 
 
 
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