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
He was, however, well mounted on a coach horse of Mr. Wharton's and, clinging to the back of the animal with instinctive skill, he abandoned the rein to the beast.
From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore
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.
I am like the old hackney coach horse, Mr. Weller—or is it Mr. Jingle—tells us of; if the shafts were drawn away I should probably collapse.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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
