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
A hackney coach horse turned into a field of grass, falls not more eagerly to a breakfast which lasts the whole day, than I attacked the old folios, so respectably covered with dust.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
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
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
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
