hitching-shed

Updated: May 21, 2025

Dress and speech, in him, expressed condescension rather than fraternal equality. He carefully assisted his wife to alight, and De Courcy led the horse to the hitching-shed. Susan Donnelly was a still blooming woman of forty; her dress, of the plainest color, was yet of the richest texture; and her round, gentle, almost timid face looked forth like a girl's from the shadow of her scoop bonnet.

Bayard Taylor - Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home