Hardly was Monsieur des Grassins allowed to see the figure of a young man, accompanied by a porter from the coach-office carrying two large trunks and dragging a carpet-bag after him, than Monsieur ❋ Unknown (2007)
She was waiting impatiently for Pierrotin, wishing to recommend to his special care her son, who was doubtless travelling for the first time, and with whom she had come to the coach-office as much from doubt of his ability as from maternal affection. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When they saw him coming back from the wharf, followed by a porter from the coach-office wheeling a barrow which was laden with sacks, they all had their comments to make: — “Water flows to the river; the old fellow was running after his gold,” said one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As for Gus, the poor fellow cried and blubbered so that he could not eat a morsel of the muffins and grilled ham with which I treated him for breakfast in the “Bolt-inTun” coffee-house; and when I went away was waving his hat and his handkerchief so in the archway of the coach-office that I do believe the wheels of the ❋ Unknown (2006)
She had relinquished her post as governess, and was staying temporarily in a room near the coach-office, where she expected him to call in the morning to carry out the business of their union and departure. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Lightning came tearing down the street, and pulled up at the coach-office. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Mahony was to have taken the child down to the coach-office. ❋ Unknown (2003)
After being robbed by the innkeeper at Liege, he gets into the Aix-la-Chapelle diligence; and, on reading the printed ticket that has been given to him at the coach-office, finds that he has the fourth seat, and that he is forbidden to change places with his neighbours, even by mutual consent. ❋ Various (N/A)
A mile, across fields, intervened between me and the coach-office. ❋ Various (N/A)
The coach-office undertook to deliver the boxes of snow and hail. ❋ Various (N/A)
Next morning I met the whole family at the coach-office, and saw them, with a desolate heart, take their places outside, at the back. ❋ Unknown (1917)
I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach-office for sixpence. ❋ Unknown (1917)
But what was it that suggested to him, as he saw the Laceham coach entering the town, to follow it to the coach-office, and get the clerk there to write a letter, requiring Maggie to come home the very next day? ❋ Unknown (1917)
I was at the coach-office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was he, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance. ❋ Unknown (1917)
When I booked my place at the coach-office, I had had Box Seat written against the entry, and had given the book-keeper half-a-crown. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Punctual to the minute, the coach crowded inside and out, the guard blowing his accustomed tune on the hornthe Lightning came tearing down the street, and pulled up at the coach-office. ❋ Unknown (1917)
This advice prevailing over the stables and the jelly, they turned towards the coach-office to witness the Lightnings arrival. ❋ Unknown (1917)
One Thursday morning, when I was about to walk with Mr. Dick from the hotel to the coach-office before going back to school (for we had an hours school before breakfast), I met Uriah in the street, who reminded me of the promise I had made to take tea with himself and his mother: adding, with a writhe, But I didnt expect you to keep it, Master Copperfield, were so very umble. ❋ Unknown (1917)
This ceremony I performed; and the Doctor begging Mr. Dick, whensoever he should not find me at the coach-office, to come on there, and rest himself until our mornings work was over, it soon passed into a custom for Mr. Dick to come on as a matter of course, and, if we were a little late, as often happened on a Wednesday, to walk about the courtyard, waiting for me. ❋ Unknown (1917)
On our way to the coach-office that evening I felt -- as the saying is -- my heart in my mouth. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
