stage-driver
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stage-driver
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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With the stage-driver as a guide, the difficulty seemed more than half removed.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
An accident to the old stage-driver placed him on the box, and when the place became permanent he was only twenty years old.
From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Oliver Optic
Dever can keep the stillest of any livin' stage-driver whose business is to drive stage on the side and gossip on the main line.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter
As a cowboy, Mr. Bowles had been a laughing-stock, but now he displayed all the courage and control of a Western stage-driver, with some of the style of a coachman thrown in.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge
Rose at five o'clock and took breakfast with Dr. Lazarus and the stage-driver, and at a quarter to six we left the Phalanx in their neat little stage.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
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