Coaches

Coaches were originally large, usually closed, four-wheeled carriages with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a coachman and/or one or more postilions. A coach had doors in the sides, with generally a front and a back seat inside and, for the driver, a small, usually elevated seat in front called a box, box seat or coach box.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 462.


 * Ne sait on pas où viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?
 * Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris came from?
 * Honore de Balzac, Physiologie du Mariage (1827). N. Q. S. 5, IV. 499. V. 195.


 * Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in the calling, let him nothing call, But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!
 * Henry Carey, Chrononhotonthologos, Act II, scene 4, line 46.


 * The gondola of London [a hansom].
 * Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair, Chapter XXVII. H. Schutz Wilson in Three Paths, claims to have originated the phrase (1759).


 * Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.
 * William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 5, line 23.


 * Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 5, line 72.


 * Many carriages he hath dispatched.
 * William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act V, scene 7, line 90.


 * When I am in my coach, which stays for us At the park gate.
 * William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act III, scene 4, line 82.


 * "There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."
 * Said to be taken from May Fair, a satire publication (1827).