How To Use Coachman In A Sentence
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He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton.
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One of the chauffeurs, an elderly, apple-cheeked man, had been the Forrest coachman.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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‘Thank you, Father,’ she replied sweetly as the carriage pulled to a stop and the coachman announced their arrival.
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And to the coachman: " For God's sake, can't you drive faster?
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When I stopped at a khafe-khana for a glass of tea, he actually removed a wheel of the carriage, which we had considerable difficulty in putting right again, and he pounded the coachman on the head with the butt of his revolver, in order, as far as I could understand, that he should be induced to go half-shares with him in the backshish that the driver would receive at the end of the stage.
Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
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The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood.
The Price She Paid.
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At this moment, the stranger who had put the coachman and groom right about the word valetudinarian, rose from the seat he had occupied in the corner of the room, and uttering a deep, hollow groan, walked towards the door.
Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
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In the brief conversation, the coachman advises the dull-witted pancake vendor recently arrived from his village on how best to sell his goods.
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Sometimes Duncan was pressed into service as a coachman.
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He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
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The chariot had not many minutes got into the great road again, over the like rough and sometimes plashy ground, when it stopt on a dispute between the coachman, and the coachman of another chariot-and-six, as it proved.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Though you're a flashy coachman, here the gagger holds the whip,
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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Misha darted away into the courtyard, and into the carriage, waved his cap over his head, hallooed, — the monstrous coachman leered at him over his beard, the greys dashed off, and all vanished!
A Desperate Character
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Upon witnessing a horse being whipped by a coachman at the Piazza Carlo Alberto, Nietzsche threw his arms around the horse's neck and collapsed, never to return to full sanity.
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The coachman untied the trunk from the roof of the carriage and set it down beside them.
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Unable to answer, Rachel could only arch an eyebrow at herself as she made her way outside and then accepted the coachman's help into the carriage.
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The Comte de Maucombe’s servants donned their old laced liveries and hats, the coachman his great top-boots; we sat five in the antiquated carriage, and arrived in state about two o’clock — the dinner was for three — at the grange, which is the dwelling of the Baron de l’Estorade.
Letters of Two Brides
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The Russian coachman drove us over the country in a heavy vehicle, having a large hammercloth, with a recklessness only equalled in Persia.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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Coachman Tom and his girl Nance were due to marry when she left him for another.
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I jist gaed to the coachman and gart him put his horses tu, and tak his denner wi 'him, and m'unt the box, and drive straucht awa til Aberdeen, and lea' the carriage whaur I boucht it, and du siclike wi 'the horses, and come hame by the co'ch.'
Heather and Snow
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If the owner of the carriage is therefore responsible for the sufficiency of his carriage to his servant, he is responsible for the negligence of his coach-maker, or his harness-maker, or his coachman.
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His coachman's way of keeping warm was to have a tot of whisky while he was waiting for the Archbishop to come out of the theatre.
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Jesus, I had to laugh at the way he came out with that about the old one with the winkers on her, blind drunk in her royal palace every night of God, old Vic, with her jorum of mountain dew and her coachman carting her up body and bones to roll into bed and she pulling him by the whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about
Ulysses
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Now every man has the same coachmanlike look in his belcher and caped coat, and there is no outward difference between my Lord and his groom.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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There they were associated with the look and dress of a torrero, and our coachman, though an old Castilian of the austerest and most taciturn pattern, may have been in his gay youth an Andalusian bull-fighter.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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There was Uncle Nathan, the butler, whose wife was Aunt Susan, the dairywoman; Uncle Davy, the shoemaker; Saul, the blacksmith; Mingo, the old body servant of Colonel Carroll; Fortune, the coachman, etc., etc. -- all very powerful men.
A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable,
Ulysses
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He rode about the city those days behind a team of spirited bays, whose glossy hides and metaled harness bespoke the watchful care of hostler and coachman.
The Financier
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“Your coachman is a wise man, lady,” Raoul said, into the great silence that suddenly filled the courtyard.
Before Midnight
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I saw how your guards, your coachman and your footman were driven off today.
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a family, the master of which should dispose of the several economical offices in the following manner; viz. should put his butler in the coach-box, his steward behind his coach, his coachman in the butlery, and his footman in the stewardship, and in the same ridiculous manner should misemploy the talents of every other servant; it is easy to see what a figure such a family must make in the world.
Amelia — Volume 1
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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the
Ulysses
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He cut a short pole at the water's edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
All Gold Cañon
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Currently, every coachman and every waiter is debating whether relativity theory is correct.
May « 2010 « Gerry Canavan
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The coachman who drove these Princesses of yours "-- Mrs. Parry always used this phrase disdainfully --" is a new man.
A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story
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The latter property he appears to have transferred to the front of the old brown landau, where the aged coachman, with nose as flat as the ace of clubs, sits, transfixed and rigid as the curls of his caxon, from three till six every Sunday evening, urging on a cabbage-fed pair of ancient prods, which no exertion of the venerable Jehu has been able for the last seven years to provoke into a trot from Hyde park gate to that of Cumberland and back again.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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She held out her hand for the coachman to help her out on to the cobbled street.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The Duke called a coachman to drive the carriage and its four occupants home.
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The horses neighed in alarm and the coachman fought to control them.
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As he is an excellent horseman, and understands farriery, I have bought a stout gelding for his use, that he may attend us on the road, and have an eye to our cattle, in case the coachman should not mind his business.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Our booked passenger showed in a moment that it was his name. The guard, the coachman, and the two other passengers eyed him distrustfully .
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Just days later, on December 12, the coachman was helped into the operating theatre - situated rather inconveniently directly above the hospital's boardroom - to begin his ordeal.
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Old men, young men, college youths, some well dressed, some dirty and ragged; delivery men hailed him from their wagons and motormen clanged their bells at him as they went by; once in a while a lady [there were "ladies" in those days] would tell their coachman to stop as they drove past and would bow and speak to him.
Some Memories of Daddy – Jack London
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The coachman heaved their trunks out of the carriage and into the hall, my brothers were already in the lounge, relaxing on the comfortable sofas.
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Did the coachman not know their lady was trying to rest until they arrived?
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‘Not again, Caroline,’ Nicholas complained even as he signaled the coachman to stop the carriage by knocking on the roof.
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– And indeed it was on these occasions that Mrs Rayland seemed to take peculiar pleasure in mortifying Mrs Somerive and her daughters; who dreaded these dinner days as those of the greatest penance; and who at Christmas, one of the periods of these formal dinners, have blest more than once the propitious snow; through which that important and magisterial personage, the body coachman of Mrs Rayland, did not choose to venture himself, or the six sleek animals of which he was sole governor; for on these occasions it was the established rule to send for the family, with the same solemnity and the same parade that had been used ever since the first sullen and reluctant reconciliation between Sir Hildebrand and his sister; when she dared to deviate from the fastidious arrogance of her family, and to marry a man who farmed his own estate – and who, though long settled as a very respectable land-owner, had not yet written Armiger after his name.
The Old Manor House
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Meanwhile his coachman had advanced to meet Lefevre.
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Soon he heard the door of the cab closed and the voice of the coachman, followed by the rumbling of the lumbersome vehicle as it shook the windowpanes.
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Mr Simkins, humbly desiring her not to be in haste, began a formal apology for his conduct; but the inebriety of the coachman became evident;
Cecilia
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While a footman was absorbing the attention of the coachman by giving him some minute, unnecessary orders, Madame (as they called the duchess) slipped out of the carriage door with one of her ladies, while two others, who were standing ready in the darkness, took their places.
France in the Nineteenth Century
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Baronet descended in state, leaning upon the arm of the Apollo in plush and powder, who closed the shutters of the great coach, and mounted by the side of the coachman, laced and periwigged.
The Newcomes
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Honest Roger, the red-haired coachman, would have looked like a clown in a pantomime, in front of a fashionable equipage; and Simon the footboy, who slouched at my back, would have been mistaken for an idle urchin surreptitiously enjoying a ride.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
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She settled into the dark of the carriage; he shut the door and nodded at her coachman.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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I turned round and there was a doorman, dressed in a green 18th-century coachman's coat with extra frogging.
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Suddenly, one autumn morning, a barouche entered the courtyard of my house, drawn by an excellent pair of trotters, with a monstrous coachman on the box; and in the barouche, wrapped in a cloak of military cut, with two arsheen * of otter fur collar, with his traveling-cap worn on one side in a devil-may-care fashion, sat Misha!
Desperate
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While we were deliberating upon what was to be done, a hackney coachman, driving softly along, and perceiving us standing by the kennel, came up close to us, and calling, “A coach, master!” by a dexterous management of the reins made his horses stumble in the wet, and bedaub us all over with mud.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
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If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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Her father might be at St. Joseph's! and it was with a sense of refreshing delight that she called the coachman and gave the order.
Evelyn Innes
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Mannish cropped trousers were paired with masculine grey flannel coats covered in subdued moiré swirls, perfect black capes lined in printed silk, and short coachman mantles edged in white mink.
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The coachman was a very fine specimen, full and fruity, and he drove with a sort of sacramental dignity.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them -- they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound -- were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.
The Motor Pirate
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We made our way to the front door, where Nathaniel retrieved his coat and hat and called for his coachman.
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What was more, my lord's coachman caught it up, and he called her countess, and he had a quarrel about it with the footman Kendall; and the day after a dreadful affair between them in the mews, home drives madam, and Kendall is to go up to her, and down the poor man comes, and not a word to be got out of him, but as if he had seen a ghost.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The coach ground to a halt, the coachman jumped down and pulled open the door.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The coachman cracked his whip and the carriage lurched forward.
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The coachman opened the carriage door and helped her step down.
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_ Only one; I called the coachman, and the waterman opened the coach door, and I opened the chaise door.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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Teddy, still in coachman's dress, came in blowing a tin fish-horn melodiously, and the proud sisters each tried to put on the slipper.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
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The embarkation was a speedy one, for the cargo was soon stowed in lockers and under seats, Sylvia forwarded to her place in the bow; Mark, as commander of the craft, took the helm; Moor and Warwick, as crew, sat waiting orders; and Hugh, the coachman, stood ready to push off at word of command.
Moods
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A coachman has to drive, a groom has to open the door, a peon has to shout warnings.
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The coachman had a thin lash.
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By which means they may, perhaps, have the pleasure of riding in the very coach, and being driven by the very coachman, that is recorded in this history.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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This so enraged Kinch, that in default of any other missile, he threw his lime-covered cap at the head of the coachman; but, unfortunately for himself, the only result of his exertions was the lodgment of his cap in the topmost bough of a neighbouring tree, from whence it was rescued with great difficulty.
The Garies and Their Friends
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Old Mike, the coachman, is right under the girl's thumb.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
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Middle-aged merchants have a great fancy for such horses; their action recalls the swaggering gait of a smart waiter; they do well in single harness for an after-dinner drive; with mincing paces and curved neck they zealously draw a clumsy droshky laden with an overfed coachman, a depressed, dyspeptic merchant, and his lymphatic wife, in a blue silk mantle, with a lilac handkerchief over her head.
A Sportsman's Sketches
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_ (He horserides cockhorse, leaping in the saddle) _ The lady goes a pace a pace and the coachman goes a trot a trot and the gentleman goes a gallop a gallop a gallop a gallop.
Ulysses
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The coachman cracked his whip and the carriage lurched forward.
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The slim man had seized the whip, and after two more murderous kicks, commenced to thrash the defenceless coachman.
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He is murdered by a peasant, Gaspard, whose child has been killed by the furious driving of his coachman.
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The Comte de Maucombe's servants donned their old laced liveries and hats, the coachman his great top-boots; we sat five in the antiquated carriage, and arrived in state about two o'clock -- the dinner was for three -- at the grange, which is the dwelling of the
Letters of Two Brides
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The footmen handed her into the coach, the coachman snapped his whip, and off they drove in grand style.
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The footman and coachman atop of the carriage were not wearing the black and red uniform of this Country, like Loraine's men, but a uniform that was a light blue and black.
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The coachman was a very intelligent settler, pressed into the service, because Jengro, the French Canadian driver, had indulged in a fit of intoxication in opposition to a temperance meeting held at Truro the evening before.
The Englishwoman in America
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A rider had come toward us and was talking to the coachman.
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This business being happily transacted, Fathom stept into a hackney-coach, with his baggage, and was followed by a bailiff, who told him, with great composure, that he was again a prisoner, at the suit of Doctor Buffalo, and desired the coachman to reconduct him to the lodging he had so lately discharged.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Two women "ferrymen" found room to row in front, the coachman attended to his horses, one of which was inclined to be restive, while a man, whose flaxen hair was so light it looked positively white against his red burnt neck, stood rowing behind us; and thus in three-quarters of an hour we reached the other side, in as wonderful a transport as the trains we had seen put on steamers in Denmark, Sicily, or the States, but much more exciting and primitive.
Through Finland in Carts
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Let me beg of you on receipt of this to order the coachman to drive you back again to my house.
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I hopped out of the carriage first ignoring the coachman's hand.
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Reggie watched a footman hand another bandbox up to the Ashford coachman.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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He was our coachman, and my father once had him arrested, on account of some paltry offence, for twenty-four hours.
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Climbing into the reassuring softness of the carriage, Evelyn promised to pay the coachman on her arrival at her home, then rested her head back against the seats.
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A person who rides the (leading) nearside (left-hand side) horse drawing a coach or carriage, esp. when one pair only is used and there is no coachman.
Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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He was quite alone — for his coachman was ill in bed — and there was nothing to be seen on either hand but a drifting mystery of hedge running athwart the yellow glare of his lamps, and nothing to hear but the clitter-clatter of his horses and the gride and hedge echo of his wheels.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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My sister's new coachman is stupid about finding short cuts in London, and we got blocked by a procession – a horrible sort of demonstration, you know. '
The Convert
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My old coachman is a most cautious, as well as skilful driver; but this was too much.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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She herself mounted in simple, undramatized authority to her official seat beside the landlord, who in coachman's dress, with a bouquet of autumnal flowers in his lapel, sat holding his garlanded reins over the backs of his six horses; and then the coach as she intended it to appear in the parade set out as soon as the turnouts of the other houses joined it.
Ragged Lady — Volume 1
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Meanwhile his coachman had advanced to meet Lefevre.
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Two exciting days were spent exploring the city in a landau, protected by my son, a dragoman, the coachman, and a "cavass," a superbly uniformed native soldier lent me by our minister, Mr. Terrell, from the American legation.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
