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Example sentences for "cochere"

Lexicographically close words:
coccygeal; coccyx; cocha; coche; cocher; cochero; coches; cochiefs; cochineal; cochlea
  1. The porte-cochere of his former lodging-house was not yet open; he took up his stand close beside it.

  2. To-night at ten o'clock she will leave the porte-cochere unlatched.

  3. Soon the porte-cochere of the house was opened, and the concierge came out with his broom, making a show of cleaning the pavement in front of the door.

  4. The porte-cochere of the house where Armand lodged had been left on the latch; not a soul was in sight.

  5. It stands opposite to the house of Monsieur Hochon, and has three windows in front on the first storey, and a porte-cochere on the ground-floor which gives entrance to a courtyard, beyond which lies the garden.

  6. Under the archway of the porte-cochere is the door of a large hall lighted by two windows on the street.

  7. The porte-cochere was made in the circular form indispensable in a street so narrow that two carriages cannot pass in it.

  8. There stood the footman with the vein in his nose and without a word he led the way through various rooms and hallways to the porte-cochere entrance.

  9. We were looking anxiously around for a door into the hall which led to the porte-cochere entrance when we saw the maid Carrie come into the room with a tray full of glasses.

  10. We passed out quickly, and to our surprise there stood the Glow-worm under the porte- cochere with the lamps all lighted and the tanks filled.

  11. Then Saniel continued his walk like an ordinary passer-by until she had time to reach the first story; then, turning, he returned to the porte-cochere and entered quietly.

  12. A porte cochere gave access to this court, and under its roof, near the staircase, was the concierge's lodge.

  13. Suddenly there was a movement under the porte-cochere of "the house," and a man ran through the street.

  14. From the porte-cochere the drive passed round both sides down to the stables, and in the center was a lawn with a screen of shrubbery.

  15. The state carriages continued on through the fast-gathering crowd, crossed the sunken garden, and entered the porte-cochere of the palace, where a group of officials stood at attention.

  16. The porte cochere stands open, go boldly through, past the concierge's box, and up the stairs to apartment number twelve, second floor.

  17. When he went a few moments ago, he had left the porte cochere ajar.

  18. We rattled into the ample porte cochere of a vast hotel--the postillion cracking his enormous whip, and bells ringing on every side, as if the crown prince of Russia had been the arrival, and not a poor sub.

  19. He at once relinquished his hold and dropped his weapon, and pulling off his cap with one hand, to draw the cord which opened the Porte Cochere with the other, bowed me politely to the street.

  20. They alighted under a porte-cochere with a glass roof.

  21. And when we finally stopped under the porte cochere I had scarcely the civility left to say good-bye.

  22. Mrs. Cooke came out under the port-cochere to welcome her.

  23. He was walking very fast, and did not stop until he reached the porte cochere of the Deffieux restaurant.

  24. There he halted, and gazed under the porte cochere with every indication of anxiety, not to say distress; then looked all about him and along the boulevard.

  25. Twenty minutes later Mrs. Bond, the housekeeper at Dreamy Hollow, stood speechless at the porte-cochere as she beheld her master alighting from his car with a woman in his arms.

  26. Having been expected, Villard himself met Updyke at the porte-cochere along with the servant.

  27. I passed the roof of the porte-cochere with success, climbed on to the ledge leading outside of the servants' wing, the letter safe within my bosom.

  28. The drive was exhilarating, and by the time he pulled up in the porte-cochere he had himself well in control.

  29. From the porte-cochere he hastened to the door, rang the bell, and asked for her.

  30. Servan, the Russian agent, stood waiting for the taxi-cab to roll up to the porte-cochere for himself, Braine and Vroon.

  31. He and the Russian, still dominoed like Norton and Florence, ordered the Hargreave auto, by number, entered it and were driven up to the porte-cochere of the Hargreave house.

  32. Then Saniel continued his walk like an ordinary passer- by until she had time to reach the first story; then, turning, he returned to the porte-cochere and entered quietly.

  33. He had gone but a short distance when he asked himself whether these dangers were such as he saw them, and whether he were face to face with a radically demonstrated impossibility.

  34. It is true a good deal of air did come in the window," Caffie said.

  35. Daunt picked his way among these to where a wide swath of electric light beneath the porte-cochere struck into high relief a strip of scarlet carpet.

  36. From a circle of evergreens near the porte-cochere a white flag-pole rose high above the treetops.

  37. Our carriage turned in under the porte cochere of this Hotel de Nidemerle of ours, and entered the courtyard.

  38. And all fell out better than I could have hoped, for under the porte cochere was the coach in which we had come to Lady Newcastle's.

  39. Then before the concierge at 96 Rue Daunou had closed the porte-cochere for the night, I slipped into the house unobserved, ran up the stairs to my office and entered the apartment.

  40. The rest was easy work, and a quarter of an hour later the heavy vehicle rumbled through the porte-cochere and started on its way to Soignies.

  41. Mean though the place was, it was equipped with a stable-yard, to which admittance was gained by a porte-cochere on the right.

  42. As I entered the porte-cochere two poor wrecks of war were being led out by their nurses--more men burned in the powder explosion at Waelhem, their seared faces and hands covered with oil and cotton just as they had been lifted from bed.

  43. In about forty minutes, Corboy drove the car under the porte-cochere again and got down and opened the door.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cochere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.