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 primitive box stage gave way to the oval or football type with curved top and bottom, and this was displaced in turn by the more practical Concord coach of national fame.
From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert
Mr. Masterton started from a slight doze in the heavy, lumbering "mountain wagon" which had taken the place of the smart Concord coach that he had left at the last station.
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Bret Harte
The great Concord coach slipped and slid and swayed on its huge springs as we rounded the curves.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
At Cinnabar Alfonso joined a merry party of tourists, who mounted a Concord coach, and the four grays were urged to a brisk pace over a smooth government road towards the great National Park.
From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton
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