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- noun Plural form of
stagecoach .
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Examples
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'roomy' and as easy as the traveling-jails called stagecoaches, which always remind me of Jonah's traveling accommodations.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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She's dressing up in the frocks, trying the dance routines, riding stagecoaches and generally bringing the period to life as though she was romping through a Jane Austen novel.
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The street was choked with stagecoaches and wagons, disgorging passengers, the passengers running for the boats.
Karen Kondazian: Excerpt: 'The Whip' Karen Kondazian 2012
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The street was choked with stagecoaches and wagons, disgorging passengers, the passengers running for the boats.
Karen Kondazian: Excerpt: 'The Whip' Karen Kondazian 2012
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The street was choked with stagecoaches and wagons, disgorging passengers, the passengers running for the boats.
Karen Kondazian: Excerpt: 'The Whip' Karen Kondazian 2012
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The paved roads of stone and asphalt, arriving in the mid-19th century, did not follow exactly the imprint of the primitive roads they supplanted, nor did the railroads that replaced the stagecoaches, but the paths were often closely parallel.
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Two days earlier, a pair of stagecoaches had been held up nearby, and Twain expected the same treatment when he was ordered to put up his hands.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Two days earlier, a pair of stagecoaches had been held up nearby, and Twain expected the same treatment when he was ordered to put up his hands.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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It began as an "ordinary way" but soon enough was transformed into what Eric Jaffe calls "the cohesive 'King's best highway,'" a road "that, a century later, steered post riders and stagecoaches; a road that, two centuries later, guided the railroad tracks that carried the Industrial Revolution; a road that, three centuries later, inspired the need for, and the location of, interstate expressways."
Eric Jaffe's "The King's Best Highway" reviewed by Jonathan Yardley 2010
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There were “know-nothing” candies, “know-nothing” toothpicks, and “know-nothing” stagecoaches.
Steve Fraser: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism Steve Fraser 2010
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