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
On July 6, 1810, Tanner gave that amount to Joseph Dougherty, a coachman for Thomas Jefferson, who used it to purchase Tanner’s freedom from her owner, Rachel Pratt, who sold Tanner that same day.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2022
He needs her help to get up in the air but she insists, “I am not a coachman for hire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
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
Penelope wondered if she was being teased and decided that it was unlikely, since she and the coachman had just met.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" 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
She said the segregation-era coachmen essentially were interpreters - even ambassadors - for passengers and dignitaries.
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
There were coachmen, storekeepers, and milkmen; later a few municipal employees and distinguished ladies made a discreet appearance, slinking along the side walls of the house to keep from being recognized.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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