coach-box

I hope you will keep the reins and the road till you are turned out, or fall from your coach-box.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

I hope you will keep the reins and the road till you are turned out, or fall from your coach-box.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Hence, after a night of pale and speechless melancholy, the gay, animated, happy countenance with which he sprang to our coach-box to take his old seat on it, and accompany us to Rotterdam.

Washington Irving 2004

The shock was so great, that the coach-horses made a full stop within ten yards of the quarry, and Mr. Greaves was thrown forwards towards the coach-box, which mounting with admirable dexterity, he seized the reins before the horses could recover of their fright.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

I never mind it myself, said Jonathan, upon a coach-box. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

I never mind it myself, said Jonathan, upon a coach-box. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Many too were parasites, whom the senators took with them to dinners for show, and who stole silver cups from the table and the sideboard, and when the day's display was over mounted some noble's coach-box and drove his horses.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Charles, who never in his life before had mounted a coach-box, was persuaded by his wife to drive his own carriage.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

In the mean time, Almeras, prevented by a general uprising from reaching Brixen, turned back with his troops dressed as a private, and made most of the way by mountain-paths on foot, fearing to remain in his carriage, as immediately after starting his cook had been shot dead on the coach-box.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Thomas Bennett, the doctor's coachman, swore that Owen was the man who got upon the coach-box and beat him, and afterwards robbed his master; that not contented therewith, they beat the witness again, knocked out one of his teeth, and broke his own whip about him.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward