Our old coachman was dead, and his son, the companion of many a boyhood scrape, was on the box.
'Jean-Marie,' she called scornfully to the old coachman, who had been in her father's service for close on half a century, 'do you really mean to tell me that you are afraid of that rabble!'
Mr. Brice was the weathered old coachman who just happened to have a soft spot in his heart for children.
The old coachman stood aside for us to enter, little dreaming that the eyes that scanned him through the scarlet mask were those of the all-powerful Cardinal.
The cook was bad-tempered, the old coachman was deaf, and Esther the only one who ever took any notice of the young lady.
The dim lights of the little town came as a relief to the old coachman.
At Stoniton another delay occurred, for the old coachman who had driven Hetty would not be in the town again till night.
He sat by the fireside, a shrivelled, very, very old coachman, full charged with reminiscences, and ready for any careless stranger.
Die letzte Droschke von Berlin, 1926 - showing the life of an old coachman in Berlin still driving the droshky during the time when the automobile arises.
This, as we learnt afterwards, was one of the companies that my uncle's old coachman had been so troubled about.