Concord coach
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Concord coach
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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This Concord coach is the famous Wild West stage, hauling mail and passengers over the plains and across deserts.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The Troy coach was preceded by a heavy coach built at Cumberland, and carrying sixteen persons, and a lighter egg-shaped vehicle made at Trenton; and it was succeeded by the famous Concord coach.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
Our conveyance was a full sized Concord coach with six good mules to draw it.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.
Day after day the lumbering Concord coach rolled on, with nothing to disturb the monotony of the vast prairies, until it had left them far behind and crossed the Range into New Mexico.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
Twenty-seven hundred and sixty miles in twenty-five days, meant a fast clip for horses and a lumbering Concord coach over ungraded roads.
From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)
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