Careful Words

coach (n.)

coach (v.)

Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.

Come, my coach! Good night, sweet ladies; good night.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

  The fly of the coach.

J De La Fontaine (1621-1695): Book vii. Fable 9.

Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;

And let the man who calleth be the caller;

And in his calling let him nothing call

But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"

Henry Carey (1663-1743): Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;

And let the man who calleth be the caller;

And in his calling let him nothing call

But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"

Henry Carey (1663-1743): Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.

He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,—

A cottage of gentility;

And he owned with a grin,

That his favourite sin

Is pride that apes humility.

Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Devil's Walk. Stanza 8.