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
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
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
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 Howard Willoughby
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 Joseph Cottle
