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

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)

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.

Those that uses to be where the buffes be are not so bigg, but about the bignesse of a coach horse.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit