In one picture you may see the careful housewife mournfully inspecting a moth-eaten garment which she has just taken from a chest that Wardour Street might envy; in another she is energetically cuffing the 'foolish fat scullion,' who has let the spotted Dalmatian coach-dog overturn the cauldron at the fire. ❋ Unknown (1903)
In front of the horses, and leaping and barking at their heads in a frenzy of excitement, was a spotted coach-dog -- the truck squad's mascot. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
We got out a can of wagon-grease and spotted him artistically to make him look like a coach-dog, which was legitimate, as coach-dogs are notoriously remarkable for lack of courage. ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)
Then out of every door rushed all the house-dogs, the butcher's dog, and the coach-dog, and even the little lap-dog jumped up, and ran down stairs, and out of the door, to join in the barking, and away went all the dogs of the place after the poor wretch. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Lord Maynard, some years since, lost a coach-dog in France, which he in vain endeavoured to find. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
On my taking them out again, the phaeton was followed by a large coach-dog, about two years old, a fine grown animal, but not well marked, and in very poor condition. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
But with universal suffrage and the coach-dog theory of premiership in full view; the theory, I mean, that the whole duty of a political chief is to look sharp for the way the social coach is driving, and then run in front and bark loud -- as if being the leading noise-maker and guiding were the same things -- it is truly satisfactory to me to know that the laws of nature are increasing in popularity. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
a banging blind the impetuous coach-dog lurched his sleek weight against the door. ❋ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1915)
a boy on the pampas sheep-killing dogs were common enough, and they were always curs, or the common dog of the country, a smooth-haired animal about the size of a coach-dog, red, or black, or white. ❋ Unknown (1881)
a coach-dog: she had just come in for a spent discharge, and had escaped the deluge, which her puce-coloured little boy had received so fully that his whole face and person seemed to partake of the prevailing tint; while yonder old greybeard is dusting his moustache from the red powder which tinges it in strong contrast to the rest of his sallow countenance. ❋ Laurence Oliphant (1858)
You wouldn't expect me to stay in bed for more than a day to oblige a common, ordinary coach-dog, would you? " ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
"No; some of the people in the street said it was a dog; a coach-dog running and jumping at the heads of the fire-horses. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
