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

His head was back-flung, his arms akimbo, and he showed a hock action, despite his age, that would have inspired a coach horse with bitter envy.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

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

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)

There's some awful mystery in this young woman," muttered Mr Clam, puffing like a broken-winded coach horse, "and if I live I'll find it out.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various