The carbon steel, an old workhorse that wins the prize for ugly duckling, cooked all the foods, with the exception of the eggs, quite well.

I'm just an old workhorse.

The ships he showed them were old workhorses, not one of them much less than a decade in age, some pushing two.

He was even more disturbed to discover, standing before the house, an ancient rig drawn by an old workhorse.

While these old workhorses were never built for speed, the refurbished versions do well at 60 miles an hour on the freeway and can be pushed to do 65.

Meanwhile the arrival of the new Hurricanes and their pilots had allowed a number of the old 'workhorses' to be relieved.

I was counting on the Rochande passenger train, my old workhorse, to come in late.

You thought I was just some old workhorse, picking up the organizational pieces for the people who mattered--Teachers and Supervisors.

The engine adds two cylinders to Jeep's old four-cylinder workhorse, and it boasts an overhead cam and sequential port fuel injection.