gig-and-horse

Updated: May 31, 2025

Only two stooping women in fields near Thring could Hogarth see; also, still further, a gig-and-horse whose remote motion was imperceptible; also the trudging two-handed process of the sower nourishing the furrows. But for these, England, supposed to be "overcrowded", seemed a land once inhabited, but abandoned.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Lord of the Sea