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Sentence Examples
The figure's enduring popularity can be attributed to the fact that coachmen were perhaps the most familiar figures on any Russian city street.
Of course it helped that the problems of dealing with horses and carriages were taken care of by coachmen and servants of various sorts.
In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen.
Much like today's jet-setting international business executives, coachmen were forever having to adjust their watches to give the correct local time.
Examples from Classical Literature
Graphic pictures of the manners of coachmen may be found in Gay's trivia, ii.
They were driven by coachmen who, as well as the guards behind, were arrayed in spick-and-span new scarlet and gold.
Most of the Foreign Ambassadors use state carriages for great occasions, with bewigged coachmen and standing footmen.
On the box seat were two liveried coachmen, while behind rode the syces.
The housekeeper, the old nurse, the cooks, coachmen, maids, footmen, postilions, and scullions stood at the gate, staring at the wounded.
Half the hackney coachmen, he says, were in league with thieves.
Everything is itemised, down to the two velvet coats for the lizard coachmen, 12 cavalier cravats and two nuns' wimples.
He had seen the coachmen, and they both agreed with him in there being nothing to apprehend.
The coachman remained on his box, and the three other coachmen remained on theirs.
Perhaps the coachmen had assumed Pierrot costumes and were rushing about the streets on foot yelling with the rest of the population.
He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.
Neither could I wonder at all this, when I saw such an interruption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets.
The reticent expression of the coachmen sent a tremor through him.
Coachmen were little squat men, wi' wigs like th' oud fashioned parsons.
