coach horse
Example Sentences
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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
Lady Teazle.—No—I swear I never did that: I deny the butler and the coach horse.
From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty
Those that uses to be where the buffes be are not so bigg, but about the bignesse of a coach horse.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson
His head was back-flung, his arms akimbo, and he showed a hock action, despite his age, that would have inspired a coach horse with bitter envy.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
The Cleveland bay coach horse is descended from the famous Darly Arabian, and preserves in a wonderful manner the thoroughbred outline.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
