coachman

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coachman

a fishing fly with white wings and a brown hackle

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"Now then," said John to the coachman, "God commands man to do all that is in his power to preserve his life; go, and drive to another gate."

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The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.

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Tom finds a difficulty in jumping, or indeed in finding the top of the wheel with his feet, which may be in the next world for all he feels; so the guard picks him off the coach top, and sets him on his legs, and they stump off into the bar, and join the coachman and the other outside passengers.

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He mounted noiselessly into the chariot and pulled the silk cord which was attached to the coachman's little finger.

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Another crack of the whip, and on they speed, at a smart gallop, the horses tossing their heads and rattling the harness, as if in exhilaration at the rapidity of the motion; while the coachman, holding whip and reins in one hand, takes off his hat with the other, and resting it on his knees, pulls out his handkerchief, and wipes his forehead, partly because he has a habit of doing it, and partly because it's as well to show the passengers how cool he is, and what an easy thing it is to drive four-in-hand, when you have had as much practice as he has.

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She thought this coachman must know something about her.

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By which means they may, perhaps, have the pleasure of riding in the very coach, and being driven by the very coachman, that is recorded in this history.

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Levin was vexed both at being hindered from shooting and at his horses getting stuck in the mud, and still more at the fact that neither Stepan Arkadyevitch nor Veslovsky helped him and the coachman to unharness the horses and get them out, since neither of them had the slightest notion of harnessing.

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The coachman, too, with the blood still streaming from his nose, tugged and toiled most manfully, dreading, doubtless, that the next blow might break his head.

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"Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat."

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The name of the coachman was John Manly; he had a wife and one little child, and they lived in the coachman's cottage, very near the stables.

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"That when my coachman was about to harness the horses to my carriage, he discovered that they had been removed from the stables without his knowledge.