Checkstring

"Checkstring" in a Sentence (2 examples)

1864,, William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, short story "Incognito", George Vickers, Strand I pulled the check-string, and gave him [the coachdriver] his instructions.

Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footman's arm.

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