 At the appointed time, the Regulator appears at the door. It is a strong, wellbuilt drag, painted what is called chocolate colour, bedaubed all over with gilt letters — a bull's head on the doors, a Saracen's head on the hind boot, and drawn by four...  Coaching Days and Coaching Ways - Page 107by William Outram Tristram - 1893 - 376 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 634 lehte
...Regulator appears at the door. It is a strong, well-built dray, painted what is called chocolate colour : bedaubed all over with gilt letters — a bull's head...the hind boot — and drawn by four strapping horses ; but it wants the neatness of the other. The passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 608 lehte
...Regulator appears at the door. It is a strong, well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour : bedaubed all over with gilt letters — a bull's head...the hind boot — and drawn by four strapping horses ; but it wants the neatness of the other. The passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | 1833 - 596 lehte
...Regulator appears at the door. It is a strong, well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour : bedaubed all over with gilt letters — a bull's head...the hind Boot — and drawn by four strapping horses ; but it wants the neatness of the other. The passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | Nimrod - 1843 - 324 lehte
...Regulator appears at the door. It is a strong, well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour, bedaubed all over with gilt letters — a bull's head...the hind boot, and drawn by four strapping horses ; but it wants the neatness of the other. The passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | 1844 - 776 lehte
...Regulator appears at the door. It is a strong well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour : bedaubed all over with gilt letters— a bull's head...the hind boot — and drawn by four strapping horses ; but wanting the neatness of the other, the passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | 1844 - 772 lehte
...door. It is a strong well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour : bedaubed all over witli gilt letters — a bull's head on the doors, a Saracen's...the hind boot — and drawn by four strapping horses ; but wanting the neatness of the other, the passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | 1844 - 1424 lehte
...well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour : bedaubed all over with gilt letters—a bull's head on the doors, a Saracen's head on the hind boot— and drawn by four strapping horses ; but wanting the neatness of the other, tho passengers may he, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | Nimrod - 1851 - 80 lehte
...Eegulator appears at the door. It is a strong, well-built drag, painted what is called chocolate colour, bedaubed all over with gilt letters — a bull's head...the hind boot, and drawn by four strapping horses ; but it wants the neatness of the other. The passengers may be, by a shade or two, of a lower order... | |
 | 1869 - 646 lehte
...contemporaneous portrait — is the pink of Jarvies. The coach is a strong, well-built, canary-coloured drag : a bull's head on the doors : a Saracen's head on the hind boot. It carries fourteen passengers and goes ten miles an hour, guaranteed pace. There is a big bell-mouthed... | |
 | 1869 - 634 lehte
...contemporaneotis portrait — is the pink of Jarvies. The coach is a strong, well-built, canary-coloured drag : a bull's head on the doors : a Saracen's head on the hind boot. It carries fourteen passengers and goes ten miles an hour, guaranteed pace. There is a big bell-mouthed... | |
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