coachman
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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
He became the Babcock family’s coachman and quickly gained respect in the Greater San Diego area, founding a Prince Hall Freemasonry lodge in San Diego for Black middle-class men to congregate and discuss civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Herring in a Fur Coat could be the title of a Soviet absurdist fable about a proletarian Cinderella who rejects the czarevitch and runs off with the rat turned coachman.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2015
Wiebenson learned, for example, that a coachman, his wife and son, and three boarders once lived in her house.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2012
It was true that the enigmatic old coachman of Ashton Place had a habit of lurking nearby.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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But quickly, the coachmen took on the role of unofficial docents, recounting a much less buttoned-up version of Williamsburg’s history to the visiting public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Colonial Williamsburg has begun to honor the coachmen by naming a new carriage after one of them, with hopes that more will follow.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
Spa, with its hotels and casinos, swarmed with coachmen and cleaners, waiters, cooks and the laundresses who organized themselves in small ateliers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2019
Their name dates back to when White Russians, anticommunist partisans who fled to France during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, worked as coachmen in Paris.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2015
It’s Tuesday, and we’re all in school mode again, like Cinderella and the mice coachmen all gone back to their ordinary form.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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