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Literary notes about Coach (AI summary)

The term coach functions as a vehicle for both literal and symbolic journeys in literature. It frequently denotes a means of transportation that carries characters through significant physical and narrative transitions—from the detailed itineraries and everyday commutes found in the diaries of Pepys ([1], [2], [3]) to the grand processional or dramatic departures in works by Brontë, Dickens, and Austen ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, coach often stands as a metonym for society’s movement and status, marking shifts in setting or mood as characters move between social milieus or tumultuous events ([7], [8], [9]). Its varied use, whether in a hackney-coach hastily summoned to retrieve someone from a crisis ([10], [11]) or in a stage-coach symbolically ushering in new beginnings ([12], [13]), underscores its enduring role in evoking the dynamics of travel, time, and transformation in narrative art.
  1. I with my Lord Bruncker by coach as far as the Temple, in the way he telling me that my Lady Denham is at last dead.
    — from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
  2. I went by coach to the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King Street breaking, and so took another.
    — from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
  3. It being done, we got a coach and got well home about 12 at night.
    — from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
  4. “In a few more hours I shall succeed you in that track, cousin,” thought I: “I too have a coach to meet at Whitcross.
    — from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
  5. ‘A coach, father!’ cried little Wackford.
    — from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
  6. His father was asleep: his hat was in the hall: there was a hackney-coach standing hard by in Southampton Row.
    — from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  7. the Glass-coach rattles, and every soul breathes lighter.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  8. “Perhaps he is no longer in the coach,” he thought, as he rebuttoned the waistcoat of his undress uniform.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  9. Daily watching for the Heavenly Coach to come.
    — from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
  10. His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham.
    — from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  11. We waited some time, but in vain; for no hackney-coach could be procured.
    — from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
  12. Containing many surprizing adventures which Joseph Andrews met with on the road, scarce credible to those who have never travelled in a stage-coach.
    — from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding
  13. I am going to try another air on Thursday.' On Thursday, June 3, the Oxford post-coach took us up in the morning at Bolt-court.
    — from Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell

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