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four-in-hand

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four-in-hand
1. a road vehicle drawn by four horses and driven by one driver
2. a four-horse team in a coach or carriage


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He was a first-rate driver; he could take a four-in-hand or a tandem as easily as a pair.
A stiff commissariat officer of sixty, famous as a martinet, had then become enamoured of the gravity with which she drove the proprieties four-in-hand through the cathedral town society, and had solicited to be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed.
I've heard of your four-in-hand, and your yacht, and your racers, and that beautiful house in Park Lane.
 
 
 
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