wheel-horse

I can't understand why an old wheel-horse like Elsworth should kick over the traces that way.

THEFT 2010

English carnages, and they are driven by one postilion, who rides the wheel-horse.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

He is an old wheel-horse of the Democratic party of his State; was a candidate for governor a few years ago, and held joint debates with

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

Livingston had been a wheel-horse in the party of Jefferson.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Had the other wheel-horse not been as steady as a rock, we would have gone right over.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

To the party wheel-horse, independent voting seemed impracticable, and the atmosphere of reform too "highly scented."

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Sometimes a trace-chain jingled as a wheel-horse twitched his flank; and sometimes a man spoke in a low voice, or a horse stamped on the pavement; but they seemed like black graven images of war-gods, half-smothered in the reeking darkness.

Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

Roscoe was dependable, a steady old wheel-horse, and that was a great comfort; but it was in Jim that Sheridan had most happily perceived his own likeness.

The Turmoil 1915

Probably nothing in the world could have more amazed his than to find Roscoe -- the steady old wheel-horse -- in this condition.

The Turmoil 1915

"Old Roscoe" was the younger, but he had always been the steady wheel-horse of the family.

The Turmoil 1915