good-stepping

Updated: May 6, 2025

They dine later and later every year. At this rate they'll dine at half-past one in twenty years' time. That's the Duke's new house; eh, coachman? By George, there's his Grace himself, on his brown cob; God bless him! There are a pair of good-stepping horses, and old Lady E behind 'em, by Jove! in her war-paint and feathers pinker than ever. She hasn't got tired of it yet.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn