stagecoach
stagecoach
Definition
stage·coach (stāj′kōc̸h′)
noun
a horse-drawn coach that formerly carried passengers, parcels, and mail on scheduled trips over a regular route
stagecoach
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- like: SB has decided she definitely likes stagecoach, so thats good.
- have: When I was a boy, I can remember asking myself: ' what on earth have stagecoaches got to do with Christmas?
- drive: To make extra money in the early days he sometimes drove the local stagecoach along the old plank road.
- take: People got there by taking a stagecoach from the town center.
Adjective modifier
- old: Stories have been told of old stagecoaches disapearing into the hole with all passengers drowned.
- early: Another type of vehicle modified for multiple passenger use is the motorized stage, applied to the same tasks as the earlier stagecoach.
Modifies a noun
- bus: Stagecoach Bus issued the following press release on November 8th.
- driver: A: The stagecoach driver only has to look at four horses ' asses.
- route: By 1700, London was connected to a number of towns by stagecoach routes.
- service: Bus: Stagecoach service No 51, Jennings service No 629, from Exeter.
- travel: For example, by 1825 steamships could offer people an alternative to stagecoach travel.
- robbery: On 25th March, 1877, Bass took part in his first stagecoach robbery.
Noun used with modifier
- horse-drawn: The name reflected their mail carrying business for the Post Office back in horse-drawn stagecoach days!
- century: The height of Buntingford's prosperity was in the early 18th century stagecoach era.
stagecoach Quotes
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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