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The young mechanic next essayed the art of coachmaking, at which he served
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So he quit coachmaking and went to work for a man at Hempstead, L.
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No doubt, he cared little for his ambitions now; he no longer thought of coachmaking, of carriages with broad varnished panels as shiny as mirrors.
The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871
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In the coachmaking days, the coach painters had tried their brushes on a post beside him; and quite a
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Borrowing, therefore, a hint from their own honest name, in selecting an occupation for their son, they chose that of coachmaking -- an art, which, in the progress of civilization, he carried from New-Jersey into the beautiful valley of the Mohawk -- not many years after the original proprietors of that section of the republic had been finally driven away by those who understood tilling their land better than they.
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After a while divers great ladies, with as great jealousie of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches, and rid in them up and down the country, to the great admiration of all the beholders; but then, by little and little, they grew usual among the nobility and others of sorte, and within twenty years became a great trade of coachmaking; "and he also notes that in the year of their introduction to England" Walter Rippon made a _coche_ for the Earl of
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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