16 Metaphors for coaches

This coach is his.... Poor fellow!

For a wonder, the coaches in which the troops rode were new, smart coaches, seemingly just out of the builders' hands.

In the afternoon I rowed over to Darien, and there procuring the most miserable vehicle calling itself a carriage that I had ever seen (the dirtiest and shabbiest London hackney-coach were a chariot of splendour and ease to it), we drove some distance into the sandy wilderness that surrounds the little town, to pay a visit to some of the resident gentry who had called upon us.

"Stage-coaches are, I believe, always the arena for political debate.

But of all my Lovers, I am for the Farmer's Son, because he keeps a Calashand I'll swear a Coach is the most agreeable thing about a Man.

Coaches with glasses were a recent invention and very fashionable amongst the courtiers and ladies of the Restoration.

Time was when the stage coach was the model method of travelling.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN My Journey The coach was a big vehicle, something after the style of a bus, the tilt and seats running parallel with the wheels.

The mail coach was evidently not the centre of disturbance, though Dorothea could see its driver waving his arm and gesticulating from the box.

A coach full of passengers and baggage is a full load for four horses, when it is mounted on wheels.

To my surprise I saw that the coach was the Jenks-Smith's.

They say to me lightly, 'Your coach was a dream,' and I answer, 'If so, then what before the dream? '

The Ridley Coach is a sketch in the style of Miss Mitford, who has contributed only one article, and that in verse.

When Victoria ascended the throne, the stage coach was the common means of traveling; only two short pieces of railroad had been constructed; the electric telegraph had not been developed; few steamships had crossed the Atlantic.

In a twinkling the coach was abreast of the private car, the transfer of passengers was effected, and Ormsby was near enough at his onlooking window to remark several things: that there was pell-mell haste and suppressed excitement; that the governor was the coolest man in the group; and that the receiver had to be helped across from the coach to the car.

The thirteenth coach was the Jim Crow car.

16 Metaphors for  coaches