How To Use Four-in-hand In A Sentence
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Before the invention of the four-in-hand, carriages with four horses had to have two drivers.
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QUOTATION: That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Quotations
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From its doors tandem and four-in-hands were wont to start for a run to New Rochelle.
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These festivities included a contest in music, a dance to symbolize the defeat of the giants by the gods, a race for four-in-hands, and finally a gymnastic tournament.
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A second temple was located at the Circus Maximus, near the race-tracks, where he was considered to be the protector of the four-in-hands which joined the races.
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A little tuft of dark-brown hair spilled over the top of his clip-on four-in-hand tie.
TALES OF THE CITY
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They're also called four-in-hands and are perfect for more casual - yet still elegant - wedding looks.
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In New York City, there was an annual coaching parade during which such rigs as four-in-hands and tally-hos coursed down Fifth Avenue.
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He was shaven, and his coat was decent and his neat black, ready - tied four-in-hand had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day.
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riatta" over their heads, he had them as much under his command as ever a crack dragsman had his four-in-hand in the good old coaching times of my own dear England.
California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts
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_ There is but one name for a man who handles his four-in-hand over tree-trunks, tacurus, and tussocks, as our coacher does.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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The Parish at this time would be full to bursting, with all kinds of traps, carriages, and four-in-hands with drivers and Postillions going to and fro from the course.
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He was shaven, and his coat was decent and his neat black, ready - tied four-in-hand had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day.
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A tailor-made, double-breasted blue serge suit, close-hauled and demoded; a soft white silk shirt, with non-detachable collar; a plain black silk four-in-hand tie, and a uniform cap, set a little back and to one side on thick, black, glossy, wavy hair, completed his attire.
Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley
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From somewhere, he had unearthed a black silk suit, black shirt and deep purple four-in-hand tie.
DEATH IN FASHION
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The choice appears to be four-in-hand, Windsor, cross knot, half-Windsor, Prince Albert, Ascot, or small knot.
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In business since 1950, this family-owned-and-run operation in Carmel, California, produces the finest bow ties and four-in-hands made in America.
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For spring the best wear in cravats will be bias striped four-in-hands in bright contrasting colors.
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Between August 5 and 8, horse-drawn carriages, ranging from single-pony carriages to stately four-in-hands, were a common sight in Saratoga as carriage enthusiasts traveled to polo and the races.
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South of the Inn, a building comprised of quarters for grooms, carriages, four-in-hands, sleighs, pungs, gentleman roadsters and a stable for 90 horses was erected.
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Although Clay is not competing with four-in-hands, he still has his hands on the goings-on in the horse world of Virginia.
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In New York City, there was an annual coaching parade during which such rigs as four-in-hands and tally-hos coursed down Fifth Avenue.
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Apart from a few more recherché knots, there are three basic ways of knotting a tie nowadays: the Windsor (a deplorable invention), the Half-Windsor (ditto, without even the courage of its convictions) and the classic four-in-hand.
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However, the four-in-hand knot is asymmetric, which does not look good on wide collar shirts.
