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coachman and were
The coachman informed him that they were managed by a Mr. Hartop who was one of his customers.
According to this theory, the murders were carried out by Sir William Gull with the assistance of a coachman, John Netley.
If the squire encountered any of his tenants on the road with sheep or cattle, his coachman had orders not to stop or slow down ; if people did not hurry out of his path they were mown down.
There were also others inventions that contributed to him, such as lifting implement for burial, wooden horse carriage and coachman, and some other woodworking that can be see from various texts which thereafter led Lu Ban to be acknowledged as the master craftsman:
Born in Köpenick, Lüdke had a mild intellectual disability ( he could not, for example, tell interrogators how many minutes there were in an hour ) and worked as a coachman.

coachman and on
Gull takes John Netley, his coachman, sole confidant, and reluctant aide, on a tour of London landmarks ( including Cleopatra's Needle and Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches ), expounding about their hidden mystical significance, which is lost to the modern world themes had also been explored in detail by Moore's near contemporary Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor, published five years before From Hell.
A carriage house and stable, with a room for the coachman, is still standing on the property, which takes up an entire city block.
It is said that every year, on the anniversary of her execution, Anne Boleyn's headless ghost arrives at Blickling Hall in a carriage driven by an equally headless coachman.
The sergeant takes offense and offers to fight ' the best man of you all for twenty pound ' and the coachman of the young lady takes him on, saying he is as good as any man in the army, and offers to box for a guinea.
In one incident, he shot his coachman during a disagreement then heaved the body into the coach on top of his wife and took over the reins himself.
* boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage
She recalled hearing the name " Wills or Wells ", and as she had seen through the window a coachman she recognised, thought she had been held on the Hertford Road.
During the night of 17 – 18 November 1803, the Haitians positioned their few guns to blast Fort Bréda, located on the habitation where Toussaint Louverture had worked as a coachman under François Capois.
The daughter of Justinian Bracegirdle, variously described as a coachman or coach-maker, and his wife Martha ( née Furniss ), she was baptised in Northampton on 15 November 1671, although her tombstone says that she died at the age of 85 ( suggesting that she was born around 1663 ).
In January 1757, her coachman took a wrong turn, and her carriage got stuck in the mud ; she got out and continued through the mire on foot, finally seeking shelter in Rousseau's modest dwelling.
In 1904 he wrote in his diary that he " ordered my coachman ... to go, and continued on foot past the bath-house.
In earlier usage, a boot was a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage.
The driver, especially when there was no coachman, rode postillion on the near horse of a pair or of one of the pairs attached to the post-chaise.

coachman and her
Eva begs her father to buy Tom, and he becomes the head coachman at the St. Clare house.
Jerry takes a job with Mrs Fowler as her coachman.
Madame des Ursins, who had gone to meet the new queen at Quadraque near the frontier, was driven from her presence with insult, and sent out of Spain without being allowed to change her court dress, in such bitter weather that the coachman lost his hand by frostbite.
Hector took over from a drunken coachman and brought her to safety, the Duchess later used her influence to procure him a Lieutenants commission in the 34th regiment of foot.
On 1 May 1869, Annie married her maternal relative John Chapman, a coachman, at All Saints Church in the Knightsbridge district of London.
In Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack ( 1928 ), a roman à clef of Natalie Barney's circle in Paris, she makes a brief appearance as Cynic Sal, who " dresse like a coachman of the period of Pecksniff "— a reference to the style of dress seen in her 1923 self-portrait.

coachman and she
After his banishment to Siberia ( having previously been relieved of his tongue ) by order of the Empress Anna, she turned to a coachman and even a waiter.

coachman and down
Knight undertook his own research, which established that there really was a coachman named John Netley ; that an unnamed child was knocked down in the Strand in October 1888 and that a man named “ Nickley ” attempted suicide by drowning from Westminster Bridge in 1892.

coachman and Street
The Bull's Head in South Street had a famous coachman, William Broad, whose portrait hangs in Dorking Museum in West Street.
* Bootle ( Sherry's valet ), Bradgate & Mrs Bradgate ( butler & cook at Half Moon Street ), Chilham ( Gil Ringwood's valet ), Ditchling ( Sheringham servant ), Mr Ford ( Gil Ringwood's landlord ), Goring & Mrs Goring ( staff at Sherry's Melton Mowbray hunting box ), Groombridge & Mrs Groombridge ( butler & cook at Half Moon Street ), Jason ( Sherry's tiger ), John ( Sherry's coachman ), Maria ( Hero's abigail ), Mr Philip Stoke ( Sheringham man of business ), Varley ( butler at Sheringham House )

coachman and .
The coachman said softly.
The tall coachman walked off briskly in search of Alexander Prieur.
The symbolism of London's landmarks is explored in the fourth chapter, in which Gull explains his motives to his uncomprehending coachman, and employs psychogeography to tie together these landmarks with the city's history.
* Ellen Pontifex ( born ca. 1831 ; housemaid of Theobald and Christina ; pregnant by John the coachman & married him 15 August 1851 ; separated ; married bigamously to Ernest late 1850s ; annulled 1862 ).
* John ( Theobald & Christina's family coachman.
His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge.
His first Hollywood motion picture was 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days in which he played David Niven's coachman.
She turns a pumpkin into a golden carriage, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen.
A black-swathed coach appears after Hutter crosses the bridge and the coachman gestures for him to climb aboard.
Hutter writes a letter to his wife and gets a coachman to send it.
In September 1733, Stanisław himself arrived at Warsaw, having traveled night and day through central Europe disguised as a coachman.
The 1944 Cerf anecdote features instead a young New York woman visiting the Carolina plantation of distant relatives, with the hearse's coachman eventually revealed to be the operator of a medical building elevator that plummets when its cables break.
Later Cayley turned his research to building a full-scale version of his design, first flying it unmanned in 1849, and in 1853 his coachman made a short flight at Brompton, near Scarborough in Yorkshire.
The Carriage House would have perhaps also been used as living quarters for a coachman, as was typical for the time period.

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