coach box
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coach box
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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They bundled my lord into the coach, box and all, the captain and two men with him.
From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha
Mrs. Popkins had sunk into a sleep; the young ladies were reading the last works of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and the dandy was hectoring the postilions from the coach box.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
The two steely-eyed men on the coach box, this gray morning, were samples of the breed.
From Kid Wolf of Texas by Powers, Paul S. (Paul Sylvester)
Having arrived in a cab, whence she could not see anything, the Tricon had quietly mounted the coach box.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
I rode forward to Dawson, who was in the coach box, and told him to drive with all the speed he could make.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Major, Charles
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