Adjective : a one-horse carriage. ,a one-horse town.    From Dictionary.com. 

Three stray Americans drove up in a one-horse cab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris War Days Diary of an American] Reference

He found a one-horse sledge standing near the farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

L | | People who keep a shop "concern" and a one-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference

Dizzle, was driving by in his modest one-horse chaise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference

This steel trolley carrier supported a one-horse hayfork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

Luther Donaldson owned the one-horse line on State Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

"It's only a one-horse country daily," he declared finally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

He did not propose to be "a one-horse farmer" all his days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Northville and give it in the little one-horse theater there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Soprano] Reference

"I thank my stars I am clean out of that one-horse town Albany!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

A profit could not be made out of such crops on a one-horse farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

A one-horse, front-cut mowing machine similar to the Buckeye mower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

It was the greyest of grey days when I arrived at my one-horse terminus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

A one-horse cab for the whole day costs 20 frs.; a two-horse cab, 25 frs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

So we entered the cab, an open one-horse affair, and started for that town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

On Finchley Common the traveller met a clergyman driving a one-horse chaise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference

You see, Mr. Lincoln was still but "the one-horse lawyer of a one-horse town.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

Bells jingled violently, and a one-horse sledge passed Maciek like a whirlwind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

We left Rome in an open one-horse carriage early one morning about the end of April.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

He wanted to own a farm of his own in time -- and it was no "one-horse farm" he aimed at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

The license tax list discriminated in license value of one-horse chaise and two-wheel coach.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

The patentees claim that they can make, with the one-horse machine, 5,000 large tiles a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

Mrs. Galbraith and her three children, and Miss Charles, a teacher, went in a one-horse buggy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

Indeed, it was nearly noon when a small, one-horse spring wagon drove into the parsonage yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference

He works a one-horse farm for Mr. Cathcart and piddles a little at the planing mills at Adgers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference

At last the green, one-horse cart pulled up by the delicatessen at the side of the old apartments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

Henson bought a one-horse wagon to carry provisions and to relieve the women and children from time to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

This model of a one-horse plow shows Blount's Daisy steel plow as pictured in the catalog of Henry F. Blount.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

This type of cultivator improved on the one-horse type, which required harrowing one side of a row at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

Last spring I cultivated the ground with a one-horse cultivator and gave our chickens free access to the feast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

I don't know where you got your idea of Mifflin, Mary Rose, for it's about the deadest one-horse town I ever ran across.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference

The sand was hauled up an incline in one-horse carts and dumped on this floor, and was also wheeled in barrows to the mixer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

The ancient town boasts no public conveyance, except a one-horse gig that carries the mail in tri-weekly trips to Charleston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

In a one-horse open sleigh. they sang as they bowled over the well-beaten track; and Tom Gray breathed a sigh of pure delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference

You don't belong in this one-horse town, you should get out in the world where there are opportunities waiting for all such as you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

"Goin 'to Concord, George?" shouted he to George Tucker, who in a one-horse wagon and his Sunday-best clothes was driving slowly past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference