The Devil's Coach-Horses
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The Devil's Coach-Horses is a 1925 essay by J.R.R. Tolkien.
"devil's coach-horse" is a British expression for a particular kind of rove beetle.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The devil's coach-horses in: The review of English studies: a quarterly journal of English literature and the English language vol. 1 no. 3 (July 1925), p. 331-6 (London, Sidgwick&Jackson), reprinted 1950.