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- noun historical A
horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between two destinations to transport passengers and mail.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beneath that, he said, are remnants of living quarters for stage-coach drivers.
Protesters in Moscow Find Rallies Disrupted by a Dig Alan Cullison 2011
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He tossed me onto his broad back and headed down the stairs, smelling of his Wild Country cologne, that fine Avon product, which was in the little stage-coach bottle on his dresser.
Babies Gary Moshimer 2010
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One League leader even wondered at the reemergence of quaint tavern inns “that marked the stopping-places of the old stage-coach, which, in the years following the Revolution, used to make the distance between Boston and New York in six days.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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One League leader even wondered at the reemergence of quaint tavern inns “that marked the stopping-places of the old stage-coach, which, in the years following the Revolution, used to make the distance between Boston and New York in six days.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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“Along this, perhaps the most characteristic of New England streets, galloped in olden days the post, or rolled the stage-coach, from New York to the Hub,” it continued.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Instead we are caught between genre frameworks, glimpsing other massacres in the carnage of the drug deal gone sour, glimpsing beneath this the ruins of a stage-coach or a wagon train attacked by Indians, shoot-outs between rival gangs of bandits and cowboys, chests of Confederate gold or Union bonds or money from bank jobs.
Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008
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“Along this, perhaps the most characteristic of New England streets, galloped in olden days the post, or rolled the stage-coach, from New York to the Hub,” it continued.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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“Along this, perhaps the most characteristic of New England streets, galloped in olden days the post, or rolled the stage-coach, from New York to the Hub,” it continued.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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One League leader even wondered at the reemergence of quaint tavern inns “that marked the stopping-places of the old stage-coach, which, in the years following the Revolution, used to make the distance between Boston and New York in six days.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Instead we are caught between genre frameworks, glimpsing other massacres in the carnage of the drug deal gone sour, glimpsing beneath this the ruins of a stage-coach or a wagon train attacked by Indians, shoot-outs between rival gangs of bandits and cowboys, chests of Confederate gold or Union bonds or money from bank jobs.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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