coachman
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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
He became the Babcock family’s coachman and quickly gained respect in the Greater San Diego area, founding a Prince Hall Freemasonry lodge in San Diego for Black middle-class men to congregate and discuss civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
“A Union of Hope,” the new exhibit in the Lower East Side museum, will include the recreated apartment of Joseph Moore, a coachman, and Rachel Moore, a housekeeper.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Wiebenson learned, for example, that a coachman, his wife and son, and three boarders once lived in her house.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2012
The coachman lifted the reins and the horse started.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
But quickly, the coachmen took on the role of unofficial docents, recounting a much less buttoned-up version of Williamsburg’s history to the visiting public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
She said the segregation-era coachmen essentially were interpreters - even ambassadors - for passengers and dignitaries.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
Spa, with its hotels and casinos, swarmed with coachmen and cleaners, waiters, cooks and the laundresses who organized themselves in small ateliers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2019
Their name dates back to when White Russians, anticommunist partisans who fled to France during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, worked as coachmen in Paris.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2015
There were coachmen, storekeepers, and milkmen; later a few municipal employees and distinguished ladies made a discreet appearance, slinking along the side walls of the house to keep from being recognized.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
