coach horse

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Anderson is like the family coach horse," Novelist William Faulkner once said; "He's dependable, you can trust him to take the children to Sunday school safely.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's some awful mystery in this young woman," muttered Mr Clam, puffing like a broken-winded coach horse, "and if I live I'll find it out.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

I am like the old hackney coach horse, Mr. Weller—or is it Mr. Jingle—tells us of; if the shafts were drawn away I should probably collapse.

From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Only if he is very ambitious of sight-seeing need he have recourse to coach, horse, or the popular American—but acclimatised—buggy.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard

A hackney coach horse turned into a field of grass, falls not more eagerly to a breakfast which lasts the whole day, than I attacked the old folios, so respectably covered with dust.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph