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

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

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

Lady Teazle.—No—I swear I never did that: I deny the butler and the coach horse.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.