in-hands

Updated: May 12, 2025

While our American women wear coaching dresses of bright orange silks and white satins, pink trimmed with lace, and so on, the English woman wears a plain colored dress, with a black mantilla or wrap, and carries a dark parasol. No brighter dress than a fawn-colored foulard appears on a coach in the great London parade of the Four- in-Hands.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages

You are a born financier, I can see by the way you divide up the increment when you rob a train. You would shine in the business world. Come on, go back east with me, and I will use my influence to get you in among the men who own automobiles and yachts, and drive four- in-hands. What do you say?" "No, it is too late," said the leader of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang of train robbers, with a sigh.

George W. (George Wilbur) Peck - Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys