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

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

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 Home, Gordon

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 MacDonald, Everett

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