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COACHMAN
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Traducere în limba română
coachman, plural coachmen substantiv
1. vizitiu, surugiu, birjar.
2. momeală / nadă / muscă artificială (pentru peşti).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
When I asked her where the coachman was to drive, she answered, Anywhere near Golden Square!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
That of murdering their coachman, William Kirwan!
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Edmund, who had taken down the mare and presided at the whole, returned with it in excellent time, before either Fanny or the steady old coachman, who always attended her when she rode without her cousins, were ready to set forward.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
The man who could enter a drawing-room walking upon his hands, the man who had filed his teeth that he might whistle like a coachman, the man who always spoke his thoughts aloud and so kept his guests in a quiver of apprehension, these were the people who found it easy to come to the front in London society.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That’s a good joke!” said Chanticleer; “no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I’ll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I’ll not draw.”
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Then as time went on, and I had got somewhat bolder, I asked him of some of the strange things of the preceding night, as, for instance, why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the blue flames.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
His coachman——
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Don't you think that,” I asked the coachman, in the first stage out of London, “a very remarkable sky? I don't remember to have seen one like it.”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
You spoke to my coachman, then?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)