The loss of the coaching trade by the substitution of the railroad, was a great blow to its local prosperity.
His indefatigable energies, his good humour, his patience, were never so conspicuous as when he was coaching duffers.
Everybody admitted that this glorious state of affairs was due to Warde's coaching of the weaker members of the Eleven.
It is difficult now to realise what our highways were like a hundred years ago and more, when coaching was at its height.
In fact, the fortunes of the "Castle" as an inn ebbed and flowed alarmingly even before the coaching age and coaching inns were threatened with extinction by railways.
This royal grant recalls a once-celebrated inn on a road in Derbyshire greatly travelled in the coaching age.
For that was the aristocratic "Castle" until 1841, when the Great Western Railway was opened to Bath and Bristol, and so knocked the bottom out of all the coaching and the licensed-victualling business between London and those places.
Cooper, however, was not a fortunate man, and coaching eventually landed him in the Bankruptcy Court.
Kathie’s mornings and early afternoons were occupied in coaching her aspiring freshmen.
Kathie is coachingfour would-be-freshies who are staying at Acasia House.
Along this road you will find several of the best specimens of old coaching inns in England.
In the coaching age the town was alive with traffic, and Burford races, established by the Merry Monarch, brought it much gaiety.
Lord Beaconsfield, in his novel Tancred, vividly describes the busy scene at a country hostelry in the busy coaching days.
Some have been left high and dry, deserted by the stream of guests that flowed to them in the old coaching days.
A galleried inn still remains at Southwark, a greatcoaching and carriers' hostel, the "George.
Small villages like Little Brickhill, which happened to be a stage, abounded with hostels which the ending of the coaching age made unnecessary.
Motor-cars have somewhat revived the life of the old inns on the great coaching roads, but it is only the larger and more important ones that have been aroused into a semblance of their old life.
The First and Last Inn, at Croscombe, Somerset, was once a noted coaching hostel, but since coaches ceased to run it was not wanted and has closed its doors to the public.
That always used to be the fate, or rather good fortune, of people in the old coaching days.
Heaven's pity on those whom duty or necessity took across that wild moorland during a heavy snow storm in the old coaching days!
The old coaching yard is full of black shadows, and there are no customers in the shops.
In the best mail and stage-coaching days the yearly number of travellers was about two millions.
Will any one out of Bedlam have the audacity to say that in coaching days only half a passenger was killed each year?
There was no objection to Joe practicing, or in coaching the two substitute pitchers, and he did this every day.
Frank Brown was tried out in the box and did fairly well, thanks to the efficient coaching Joe had given him.
No one who has seen the coaching parade in New York can have failed to observe the extraordinary change which has come over the fashion in dress for this conspicuous occasion.
While our American women wear coaching dresses of bright orange silks and white satins, pink trimmed with lace, and so on, the English woman wears a plain colored dress, with a black mantilla or wrap, and carries a dark parasol.
How can a white satin, trimmed with lace, or an orange silk, be the dress in which a lady should meet the sun, the rain, or the dust of a coaching expedition?
A very young chaperon, bent on pleasure, who undertakes to make respectable the coaching party, but who has no dignity of character to impress upon it, is a very poor one.
Being on one of the principal coaching roads, Henley received more than its share of celebrated visitors.
On coming out of academy I met Smart, who hook hands with me and congratulated me on passing.
I now began my regular duties as fag, and as these, with but slight variations, continued during nearly a year, I can here describe them.
Nevertheless, when Foxhall started off third, Pelty, defiant ofcoaching rules, sprang forward, grabbed him and yanked him back.
Even as he spoke he signaled from his position on thecoaching line for Foxhall to hit the ball out; and Foxhall was liable to do it if anybody could.
Chipper Cooper, coaching on the line back of first, flapped his arms wildly and crowed like a rooster.
I am aware that many young school instructors have fostered and encouraged such tendencies, some of them even taking part in the coaching of teams made up from their pupils.
Steam, however, had come to stay, and the days of coaching were already numbered.
The Golden Age of coaching was at hand, and no print-shop is complete without some score or more of carefully coloured engravings of one or other of "the Mails.
I wish that chap in the white pants'd toot his horn," said the messenger boy; but Jack Elliot was a coaching man who did not believe in arousing the neighborhood with useless music, so the wish was not gratified.
Approaching Grand Boulevard the crowd of vehicles became denser, and the coaching party found much to amuse them.
The people on the veranda crowded forward to see the coaching party, while Sedger and his guests descended, and the coachman drove the steaming horses off to the stables.
Well done, old man," called Howard-Jones, who was himself a coaching man.
Sixty years since this establishment was one of the principalCoaching Houses of the Metropolis.
The turnpike or the highroad served its purpose well enough in coaching days as the most direct and quickest way between important towns.
There is also a famous old coaching house, the Ship Hotel (most curiously named), which caters particularly for automobilists.
The Portsmouth road, in coaching days as in automobile days, ran through England's fairest counties down to her emporium of ships.
In the old coaching days road speeds fell far behind what they are to-day in a well-constructed and capable automobile, but, as they put in long hours on the road, they certainly did get over the ground in a fairly satisfactory manner.
I've heard his income is fifty thousand a year, what with lessons andcoaching and odds and ends.
William Ashe to the landlord of one of the coaching inns of Domo Dossola--"and if you can't give me one for less, I suppose I shall have to pay this most ridiculous charge.
As far as he could remember she had gone coaching with the Alcots into Surrey, Geoffrey Cliffe, of course, being of the party.
But the high road itself shaved the edge of the precipice so closely that, it is related, in the old coaching days, many people preferred leaving the vehicle at the top of the hill to swinging down such a slope.
Readers turning to the illustrations on another page may see at a glance the difference between "then" and "now" both in the coaching and the locomotive departments.
He found something to build upon, because, although the game at Cambridge was in the doldrums, there had been keen and capable coaching in the past.
His personality enables him to get close to the men, and he was wonderfully successful at Exeter, coaching his old school.
In the course of the afternoon game, Weatherhead put hiscoaching in practice.
Coaching him was the finest thing I ever did in football.
Of Haughton's coaching methods and the Harvard system Eddie has a few things to tell us that will be news to many football men.
He was actively engaged in coaching until 1907 when he was obliged to give it up due to pressure of business.
Furthermore, their absence from our country sometimes for years, keeps them out of touch with football generally, and it is impossible for them to keep up to date--hence the coaching from other institutions.
They used to come over to assist in coaching our team.
Coming now to more recent times, the coaching was turned over to H.
The railway will soon be completed from Colombo to Galle, and the days of coaching cease forever.
