"Tipp," says his pleasant biographer, "never mounted the box of a stage-coach in his life; or leaned against the rails of a balcony; or walked upon the ridge of a parapet; or looked down a precipice; or let off a gun."

The execution took place not on Tower Hill, as usual with persons of high rank, but in Lincoln's Inn Fields, in order that the citizens of London might be humbled and terrified by the sight, as he was carried in a coach to the scaffold through the City.

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

By Instinct; such as you ought to know a Person of Quality, and pay your Civilities naturally; in France, where I have travel'd, so much good manners is used, your Citizen pulls off his hat, thusto every Horse of Quality, and every Coach of Quality; and do you pay my proper Person no more respect, hah! Isa.

The coach for Brussels stopped there twice a week, and when once she had taken her place in it, the worst of her journey would be over.

If I can, he wants me, with our little Pierre, to catch the coach at 'Les Trois Frères' to-morrow.

The little page was outside the coach on the step, and a fellow in the crowd aimed a potato at him, and hit him in the eye, at which the poor little wretch set up a shout The man, a great big saddler's apprentice of the town, laughed, and stooped to pick up another potato.

Their remarks were overheard by Bob Scott, who was to drive the coach from Horseshoe to Fort Laramie, and he determined to give them satisfaction before they got over his route.

" 'Beauclerk and I, and Langton, and Lady Sydney Beauclerk, mother to our friend, were one day driving in a coach by Cuper's Gardens[805], which were then unoccupied.

She made objections to the gaiety of my dress; and told me, that if she went to St. Paul's, she could go in a coach without me.

He goes often mounted in a coach as a convoy to guard the ladies, to take the dust in Hyde Park, where by his prudent management of the glass windows he secures them from beggars, and returns fraught with China-oranges and ballads.

Being aware that the pony express horses were accustomed to running right into the stable on arriving at the station, he threw open the large folding doors, which would just allow the passage of the team and coach into the stable.

Very scurvily, that is to say, be always fashionably drunk, despise the Tyranny of your Bed, and reign absolutelykeep a Seraglio of Women, and let my Bastard Issue inherit; be seen once a Quarter, or so, with you in the Park for Countenance, where we loll two several ways in the gilt Coach like Janus, or a Spread-Eagle.

But they said "no," they must be off at once, for the ride was a long one, and Van Bibber looked at his list and saw that his choice was Jack Frost, a very likely winner, indeed; but, nevertheless, he walked out to the enclosure with them and mounted the coach beside the girl on the back seat, with only the two coachmen behind to hear what he chose to say.

A coachone of the night coaches out of Bristolwas standing before the inn, the horses smoking, the lamps flaring cheerfully, a crowd round it; the driver had just unbuckled his reins and flung them either way.

Henry the fourth of France had but one coach between himself and his queen; whereas no respectable person can now dispense at the least with a travelling chariot, a barouche, a cab, and a dennet.

Here there are infinite swarms of inhabitants and more coaches than men.

Cambridge, a coach through Coventry, Stamford, Stilton, &e. every morning, at eight. , the Rising Sun, through Coventry, Dunchurch, and Northampton, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, at five.

I once saw, on a pair of horses drawing a stage-coach among the hills, a set of harness which was thirty-five years old.

He looked back over the top of the coach down the road to see what had become of the driver.

They swam before him, as he looked, and next moment he was in the dark coach outside holding close to Florence.

To spare the horses at Penmaen Rhôs, between Conway and St. Asaph, we sent the coach over the road across the mountain with Mrs. Thrale, who had been tired with a walk sometime before; and I, with Mr. Thrale and Miss, walked along the edge, where the path is very narrow, and much encumbered by little loose stones, which had fallen down, as we thought, upon the way since we passed it before.

Irby pressed into the coach after the three and shut the door, Kincaid uncovered, and the carriage sped off.

Sir, there's one in a Coach below wou'd speak to you.

On the river side of the first coach behind the diner, Estella Benton nursed her round chin in the palm of one hand, leaning her elbow on the window sill.