coach-office

When they saw him coming back from the wharf, followed by a porter from the coach-office wheeling a barrow which was laden with sacks, they all had their comments to make: — “Water flows to the river; the old fellow was running after his gold,” said one.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

She was waiting impatiently for Pierrotin, wishing to recommend to his special care her son, who was doubtless travelling for the first time, and with whom she had come to the coach-office as much from doubt of his ability as from maternal affection.

A Start in Life 2007

Hardly was Monsieur des Grassins allowed to see the figure of a young man, accompanied by a porter from the coach-office carrying two large trunks and dragging a carpet-bag after him, than Monsieur

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Lightning came tearing down the street, and pulled up at the coach-office.

Vanity Fair 2006

She had relinquished her post as governess, and was staying temporarily in a room near the coach-office, where she expected him to call in the morning to carry out the business of their union and departure.

A Changed Man 2006

As for Gus, the poor fellow cried and blubbered so that he could not eat a morsel of the muffins and grilled ham with which I treated him for breakfast in the “Bolt-inTun” coffee-house; and when I went away was waving his hat and his handkerchief so in the archway of the coach-office that I do believe the wheels of the

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

Mahony was to have taken the child down to the coach-office.

Australia Felix 2003

A mile, across fields, intervened between me and the coach-office.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

The coach-office undertook to deliver the boxes of snow and hail.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various

After being robbed by the innkeeper at Liege, he gets into the Aix-la-Chapelle diligence; and, on reading the printed ticket that has been given to him at the coach-office, finds that he has the fourth seat, and that he is forbidden to change places with his neighbours, even by mutual consent.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various