| Then, from a lateral path, a closed carriage and pair drove rapidly up to the Hall, and a footman bounced off the hammercloth. |
| The etymology of this hammercloth, which was simply a covering over the coach-box, seems to have puzzled people considerably. |
| His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time. |
| The masses of gold lace by which the hammercloth and the attendants' liveries were ornamented had an extremely rich effect. |
| There is no footboard, whilst a hammercloth for the footman is raised upon scroll ironwork, very well made. |
