There were no horses to ride post, but I found men with coaches who did as well, and I agreed with one of them to take me to Trevisa in an hour and a quarter.
Our coaches crossed each other on the way, and my humble equipage had not caught his excellency's eye.
In 1826 seventeen coaches ran to Brighton from London every morning, afternoon, or evening.
There are not less than about twenty coaches that leave the Wen every day for this place; and, there being three or four different roads, there is a great rivalship for the custom.
XXVI The pleasant old town of Cuckfield stands on no railway, and has no manufactures or industries of any kind; and since the locomotive ran the coaches off the road has been a veritable Sleepy Hollow.
This type gave place to coaches of lighter build about 1823.
The tale of coaches now decreased to twenty-three; fares, which had fallen in the cut-throat competition of coach proprietors with their fellows in previous years to 10s.
Numerous coaches ran to meet the demands of the travelling public, and these continually increased in number and improved in speed.
How different it must have appeared when the stage-coaches were passing up and down that valley, now deserted, for even the railway, which supplanted them, had passed it by on the other side!
In stormy weather the wind blew through this cutting with such terrific fury that the pass was known as the "Devil's Bellows," and at times even the coaches were unable to pass through.
We might, however, have fallen into the hands of highway robbers, for many were about the roads in that neighbourhood then, and many stage-coaches had been held up and the passengers robbed.
Not all coaches agree to the principle outlined above.
The big reason that many coaches have failed with the "choice" method of passing is that their plays have not been so designed as to give their passer the necessary time for making a choice.
In one of the mourning-coaches Beauchamp, Debray, and Chateau-Renaud were talking of the very sudden death of the marchioness.
Villefort's house, and a long file of mourning-coaches and private carriages extended along the Faubourg Saint-Honore and the Rue de la Pepiniere.
Coaches of all colours are alike to poor Kindheart, and he rests far North of the little cemetery with the cypress-trees, by the city walls where the Mediterranean is so beautiful.
But this device which in effect was that of two crooked fingers hooked together, allowed the ends of the coaches to swing and roll in a manner most disagreeable to many passengers.
On the day set, there was passing of coaches and chaises, of carriages and wheelbarrows, people on horseback and afoot, and Billy's master was the first to go.
After he was left alone, there were people passing on horses and afoot, in coaches and chaises, in carriages and in wheelbarrows, all going to see the great sight.
Coaches are sometimes ridiculed for the excessive care they take of their men; and there are not wanting those who draw the inference that rowing men are peculiarly liable to illness, and suffer, when attacked by it, more than others.
Moreover, the Athletic Committee has in its hands the appointment of coaches for the crew, and for the football, baseball, and athletic teams.
Many coaches imagine that when they have said, "Do not pull yourself forward by your toes against the straps," they have exhausted all that is to be said on the matter.
There were crowds of men busy in the yards, there were coaches riding on the nearer bank, but of the river itself there was no indication.
There is nearly always some one in residence who is considered capable of looking after the college Eight, but the ignorance of college coaches is often only too manifest from the arrant nonsense they may be heard shouting on the bank.
In order, therefore, that matters may be made easier for novices, and that they may be brought on gradually, I strongly advise coaches to start them on slides much shorter than those now in vogue.
Twice he walked through the coaches of his train without discovering a face that resembled that in the photograph.
From the copper and silver coaches alighted pages dressed in scarlet breeches and green jackets and cloaks, while from the golden coach stepped a handsome nobleman all dressed in gold.
Gilt nails were the principal ornaments of the heavy and unwieldy coaches of the age of Louis XIV.
Groton, The Old Taverns and Stage-Coaches of Samuel Abbott Green, M.
Besides the stage-coaches the carrier wagons added to the business of Groton, and helped largely to support the taverns.
Old Taverns and Stage-Coaches of Groton, The Samuel Abbott Green, M.
More than a generation has now passed away since these coaches were wont to be seen in the village streets.
During many years the stage-coaches were a distinctive feature of the place; and their coming and going was watched with great interest, and created the excitement of the day.
Dearborn Emerson married a sister of Daniel Brooks, a large owner in the line of stage-coaches running through Groton from Boston to the northward; and this family connection was of great service to him.
A line of these coaches was put in commission in Glasgow in 1846, each one having a seating capacity of twenty-six, six inside and twenty on the top.
Notwithstanding this tolerant feeling, however, it is very doubtful whether the cumbersome coaches of the early part of the century would be received with favor at the present time when taste and requirements are entirely different.
As in the train in which I had travelled the night before, all the coaches and waggons were carefully and clearly labelled, but this time with the names of the places to which they were going.
The windows of every compartment of the passenger coaches bore the names of four officers.
The coaches bustled in with water, shook the hand of the new Guard and told her to lie flat and not talk.
Very well," said the Centre, huffily, and then the chattering died away as Miss Kassan made mysterious marks on the floor, and the coaches took their places with halves of lemon and glasses of water in their hands.
Father Semedo, one of the earliest missionaries to China, asserts, that coacheswere anciently in common use in this country, and that they were laid down on account of the great convenience and little expence of sedan chairs.
The coaches alluded to by the reverend father were, in all probability, the little carts above mentioned, for not the vestige of any thing better is to be found among them; not the least appearance of any thing like a spring carriage.
I cannot help thinking that in the long run I shall be able to trace him, and of course it will make it all the easier if he takes to stopping coaches or committing murderous burglaries.
They have created such alarm that the coaches carry with them two men armed with blunderbusses, in addition to the guards, and I should fancy that every householder sleeps with pistols within reach, and has got arms for his servants.
I have a sort of fancy myself the fellows who are stopping the coaches are the same as those concerned in the burglaries.
The cashier, looking at the number, found that it was one of those that had been stolen from a passenger by one of the south coaches several months ago.
If all other plans failed he would spend his time in coaches until at last the villain should try to stop one; but there must be other ways.
All those burglaries, and the way in which he has several times stopped coaches single handed, show his nerve and coolness.
During this time he heard of several private coaches being held up on the road between Epsom and London, and three burglaries took place at Streatham.
Dark when we came to London, and a stop of coachesin Southwarke.
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