thick-wheeled

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He was not a great walker, but he strolled about the grounds with his cousin a pastime for which the weather remained favourable with a persistency not allowed for in Isabel's somewhat lugubrious prevision of the climate; and in the long afternoons, of which the length was but the measure of her gratified eagerness, they took a boat on the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the foreground of the landscape; or drove over the country in a phaeton a low, capacious, thick-wheeled phaeton formerly much used by Mr.

Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1