Regarding the painting's relationship to epochal transitions, it is perhaps significant that a mixture of pedestrians andhorse-drawncarts populate this area.
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These occurred whenhorse-drawncarriages rolled in to the polling place and a servant made his way to the voting window with a ticket or two.
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No one will begrudge thehorse-drawnvehicle its place, and long may it remain there.
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I suggest that instead of having two gates, there should be one gate forhorse-drawntraffic but a stile would suffice to let pedestrians over.
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It is applicable to all road users, whether they use the roads as pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, lorry drivers or drivers ofhorse-drawnvehicles.
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It makes regulations for pedestrians, for cyclists and forhorse-drawntraffic.
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I suppose that it was the falling off of thehorse-drawncoal barges in the 1930s which marked the end of the active period.
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In certain special dock areas where inflammable or explosive goods are handled vehicles whetherhorse-drawnor otherwise are exempt from the obligation to carry lights.
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With the disappearance ofhorse-drawnbarge traffic, the towpath has fallen into disuse.
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In practice, most users are likely to be walkers, cyclists, horse riders and drivers ofhorse-drawnvehicles.
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Of course, it consisted not of lorries but ofhorse-drawntransport, presumably carts, chariots and so on.
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Essentially, we are dealing with past vehicular use byhorse-drawnvehicles long before the invention of the internal combustion engine.
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During the next trooping season we shall be at liberty to send eitherhorse-drawnor mechanised artillery as we please.
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Ahorse-drawnvan was coming along the road behind it, and the horse bolted.
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Thehorse-drawnstage coach and the turnpike road were an improvement, but not a very great improvement, on what had gone before.
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