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Sentence Examples
We made our way to the front door, where Nathaniel retrieved his coat and hat and called for his coachman.
In the brief conversation, the coachman advises the dull-witted pancake vendor recently arrived from his village on how best to sell his goods.
The Duke called a coachman to drive the carriage and its four occupants home.
I saw how your guards, your coachman and your footman were driven off today.
He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton.
He was our coachman, and my father once had him arrested, on account of some paltry offense, for twenty-four hours.
Did the coachman not know their lady was trying to rest until they arrived?
The coachman untied the trunk from the roof of the carriage and set it down beside them.
The footmen handed her into the coach, the coachman snapped his whip, and off they drove in grand style.
It was Perrault who brought us the fairy godmother, the pumpkin that turned into a coach and the lizards, mice and rat as footmen, horses and coachman.
The footman and coachman atop of the carriage were not wearing the black and red uniform of this Country, like Loraine's men, but a uniform that was a light blue and black.
In the last century, Jean Astruc, coachman of hackney carriage in Bourigeole's castel, travels the roads around Limoux.
The coachman opened the carriage door and helped her step down.
The coachman obediently waited on me and put out a hand to assist me.
Soon he heard the door of the cab closed and the voice of the coachman, followed by the rumbling of the lumbersome vehicle as it shook the windowpanes.
The horses neighed in alarm and the coachman fought to control them.
The coachman heaved their trunks out of the carriage and into the hall, my brothers were already in the lounge, relaxing on the comfortable sofas.
Climbing into the reassuring softness of the carriage, Evelyn promised to pay the coachman on her arrival at her home, then rested her head back against the seats.
The coachman gives way to the streetcar driver.
Henry Smith, her coachman, next gave evidence. He said he heard King say he had come after some ooftish.
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To escape poverty, he moved south to Vladimir where he became a coachman in the Murom forests.
When Henriette was writing this journal, her father was the mayor of the city of Saint-Hyacinthe where the family lived in a large house that came with a gardener, a coachman, a cook, a seamstress and maids.
The coach carries the children in two rounds, which allows parents some choice in their schedule, and above all reduces stress for the coachman waits for latecomers.
His troika carries a swindler, Chichikov, and his drunken coachman, but it is transformed into the symbol of a God-inspired country that gloriously surpasses all others. So, too, with the Sochi Olympics.
How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
The coachman does not have to be selected.
The big brother played the role of coachman and drove ponies harnessed to the coach, while two younger children played the lackeys standing at the back.
Examples of professions that may be unfamiliar today are: cooper, joiner, tinker, boilermaker, carter, hatter, millwright, mason, raftsman, and coachman.
This minor incident could have waited until the following inn had the coachman driven at a more moderate pace, but he was unwilling to take the risk and decided to make provisional repairs straightaway.
He dressed like a coachman and his conversation was rarely fluent.
The coachman lets you play a second card on your route.
Examples from Classical Literature
Her coachman had all he could do to control her mettlesome span of Spanish mares.
He had ordered his coachman to have his coupe in readiness for the evening.
The coachman was revolving in his own mind the question of the boy's belongings.
These belong to the 'poor white trash,' as the coachman would tell you with a curl of his ebony lip.
The coachman, with the whip around his neck, and a young man who looked a bit like a seminarian, began to chat and smoke.
The Marchesino went to tell the coachman which way to drive to the carmine.
Two footmen with flambeaux got up behind, and the coachman was ordered to drive home.
Him they carried to the town-council who returned him to the tribunal and garroted the coachman.
He was valet-de-chambre, not coachman or grum, and could make nothing of horses.
I was all ready to go, and I had got the coachman, who is an Englishman, to bring down my poor box and to fetch me a cab.
The coachman had mounted to his box, and was wrapping a sheepskin about his knees.
What harm can that swearing coachman do, I should like to know, in the street yonder?
When the side horse does not pull or gets restless, she knows how to help matters and instructs the coachman.
The mulatto coachman, with a third horse, was at the door, ready to accompany us.
The man who can do this may be said to have passed his postgraduate examination as a first-class coachman.
It was the one which the general's coachman had handed to him, recommending me to his care.
In front of this body is a small driving-place, enclosed in trelliswork, inside which the coachman stands to drive.
Do two Americans, a half-breed beggar, and a local coachman get sunstruck at one and the same time?
Meanwhile, we trust that a watchful eye will be kept upon the angelic footmen and archangelic coachman.
He paid the coachman and the interpreter, and lunched at the brasserie de Vienne nearby.
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The coachman had discovered his unlawful presence on the tailboard and had reached him with just the tip end of his whip.
Slowly and in great state, after all rolled Mrs. carrack's coach with herself and son within, and footman and coachman without.
The coachman had providently put his dinner in the form of a sausage, rolled in brown paper, under his seat.
I must have a coachman with a top-heavy wig, and horses so big that they frighten me.
Since that time, he has been employed as coachman by Uri Gilbert, Esq., of this city.
The coachman and his horses were both invisible, and nothing but darkness was about the boy.
The carriage was where he had left it, the coachman fast asleep on the box.
The party consisted of half a dozen boys and girls whom Nan was chaperoning, Stuart, the footman and coachman.
I considered your coachman to be a faithful man, and I told him to wait for you at the postern.
If you incline you can have him on trial, and then your coachman will see what he thinks of him.
Excuse me, mim, but the coachman says shall he wait any longer?
I know that,' replied the coachman gruffly, as he banged the door.
Then the coachman whipped up his horses, and they set out for Buda.
A coachman in a jerkin, who stood nearest, sprang forward and snatched it up.
She had left the church last of all, and, desiring to arrive first at the hall, had issued orders to the coachman to drive faster.
And the coachman, with the outriders, is waiting in the lower court of the castle.
The coachman turning around, gave Friquet a slash with his whip which made him scream with pain.
It was drawn by two powerful horses driven by a coachman whose face was almost concealed in the long folds of a muffler.
A coachman and manservant were the only other members of the family.
The well-paid coachman took them as far as Dame Robert's door.
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But Mrs. pomfret did not give the signal for her coachman to drive on.
And regaining his entresol he overwhelmed the coachman with every projectile he could lay hands on.
The coachman, nearing the goal, had given the horse his head.
But, notwithstanding this order, the coachman suddenly came to a stop.
The cook was bad-tempered, the old coachman was deaf, and Esther the only one who ever took any notice of the young lady.
Mengs ordered the coachman to drive home, and I was put to bed.
Rollo next directed the coachman to drive to the Temple of Serapis.
The fat, black horses went in a slow, measured trot, notwithstanding constant urging on the part of the fat, black coachman.
After proceeding some miles on the highway, the carriage turned off, and the coachman involved himself in an intricate network of cross-roads.
The coachman remained on his box, and the three other coachmen remained on theirs.
They re-entered the landau, Macquart taking the seat beside the coachman.
She inquired of the coachman if the outside places had their full complement of passengers also.
The coachman looked back and the guard looked back, and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back, without contradicting.
There was a station three miles ahead, and paying off his coachman, he walked thither.
The coachman turned into a street where an open-air market was going on.
The coachman dismounts and fills his bucket, and holds it to the horses' heads.
The coachman said not a word, except to swear awfully at the hostler for not bringing him a fresh team of horses.
Yes, maam, said the coachman and swung the horses into a by-road.
This was the moment of triumph and vainglory to the coachman.
Felicite put Virginia's luggage on top of the carriage, gave the coachman some instructions, and smuggled six jars of jam, a dozen pears and a bunch of violets under the seat.
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The coachman entered and traversed the half-circle without slackening his speed, and the gates were closed ere the wheels had ceased to sound on the gravel.
Monsieur's will was alone regarded by Jacquelin, now become coachman, by Rene, the groom, and by the chef, who came from Paris, Mariette being reduced to kitchen maid.
Here a fresh-looking barmaid serves them each with a glass of early purl as they stand before the fire, coachman and guard exchanging business remarks.
And the coach, and the coachman, and the horses, rattled, and jangled, and whipped, and cursed, and swore, and tumbled on together, until they came to Golden Square.
