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1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. B2^v Twould doe me good To wash my Coach-nailes in my fathers blood.

a1691 P. Skippon Acct. Journey Low-Countries in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) VI. 567/2 In the middle of the coach-roof was a looking-glass.

1695 W. Granvill tr. G. de Courtilz de Sandras Polit. Test. Jean Baptist Colbert xv. 317 We should send thither three Millions every year, to buy Looking Glasses and Coach-Glasses.

1696 P. Ayres Revengeful Mistress 172 He twice saw the Page, who had his Hand on the Coach Boot..give the Coach-man orders to drive on faster.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 226 Received at his coach door by four gentlemen, two pages, and a harbinger.

1797 C. Prentiss Coll. Fugitive Ess. 162 He stops, and John, than light' ning faster, Let down the coach steps for his master.

1805 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 3) I. Introd. p. xviii Coach-harness makers.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlviii. 67 ‘How are you, Christopher?’ croaked the dwarf from the coach-top.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 174/1 He is a coach-body maker by business.

1907 Dakota Huronite (Huron, S. Dakota) 26 Sept. (heading) Coach roof blown off. Reading passenger train runs into wind storm.

1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. 2/1 Virgin is confident the new aluminium tilting trains..will be safe, in spite of the concerns about aluminium coach bodies raised by the Paddington crash.

2009 Musical Times Autumn 61 Her arm was so badly lacerated from broken glass in the coach window that for some time it was feared that amputation would be necessary.