33 examples of cocher in sentences

There was one very like him, sitting quite straight and correct on the box of a brougham, "John Cocher Anglais n'a jamais verse, ni accroche" (English coachman who has never upset nor run into anything).

[Footnote: The "cocher" called it the Pic d'Estremère, but we had no confirmation of this] to view, that appeared to form an impassable barrier 'twixt France and Spain.

Having "nothing to declare" and nothing contraband undeclared, we were soon permitted to proceed, although our "cocher" almost immediately afterwards stopped to change horses.

Would he point out the cocher to me?

The cab driver proved to be a dull and surly fellow, like many another cocher of Paris, but the clink of silver and the sight of it mellowed him.

"Cocher, what is the fare?"

One day on the Boulevard he called a fiacre, having first taken care to choose a coachman of respectable age, "Cocher, drive to the Rue Montorgueil, to the best restaurant you can find."

While the young man was putting on with decided distaste the garments of the cocher, the latter managed to introduce his ponderous bulk into those of the poet.

We found a dilapidated fiacre driven by a still more dilapidated cocher, who, for the sum of six francs, drove us to the town.

Héloise told him directly that we were only up seeing the dentist, and seemed in a great hurry to get into the porte cocher; but he was not to be shaken off, and stopped talking to us for about five minutes.

The cocher leaned forward for instructions.

Une vieille fille excentrique, que l'auteur a connue, ne consentait à monter dans une voiture de louage qu'après avoir demandé au cocher s'il n'avait point transporté de malades atteints d'une maladie infectieuse, s'il n'était pas puseyite, et enfin s'il adhérait au programme whig.

The cocher would generally nod his head, and thank her very kindly, which he had good reason to do, for she never forgot that it took more money to buy food than drink.

A very old cab crawled into view, with a knock-kneed horse which staggered aimlessly about the empty streets, and with an old cocher who looked about him as though doubtful as to his whereabouts in this deserted city.

LE PEINTRE DAVID ET LE COCHER David, célèbre peintre français sous l'Empire, a excellé par la pureté classique de son dessin.

Il remarqua un homme dont le costume annonçait un cocher de fiacre, et dont l'attitude indiquait le dédain.

COCHER, m., conducteur d'une voiture.

Jadis des quatre vents la fureur triomphait; De ces quatre chevaux échappés l'homme a fait L'attelage de son quadrige; Génie, il les tient tous dans sa main, fier cocher Du char aérien que l'éther voit marcher; Miracle, il gouverne un prodige.

As the carriage rolled off, Banker walked after it, but not in such a way as to attract attention, and then he entered a cab and told the cocher to drive to the Bon Marché.

Long afterwards, in the same city, I saw a man sitting calmly in a fiacre, a man of the "gentlemanly" class, and ordering the cocher to drive on, although a woman was clinging to the side of the carriage and refusing to let go.

CHOISEUL, DUC DE, minister of Louis XV.; served his master in various capacities; was rewarded with a peerage; effected many reforms in the army, strengthened the navy, and aided in bringing about the family compact of the Bourbons; exercised a great influence on the politics of Europe; was nicknamed by Catharine of Russia Le Cocher de l'Europe, "the Driver of Europe"; but becoming obnoxious to Mme.

Lyon à la place du cocher, qui n'en avait pas le temps, et j'ai rapporté des lettres pour tout le monde.

C'est que le cocher et la femme de chambre voulaient les lire avant madame et mademoiselle, ce qui est leur manquer de respect ...

je viens de voir saisir votre cocher et un de vos valets de pied ...

#cocher#, m., coachman.

33 examples of  cocher  in sentences