Apr. 377/1 At the back, the jacket is laid in postillion-plaits. From Wordnik.com. [Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
"The postillion is a liar, I told him nothing of the kind.". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
“The postillion is a liar, I told him nothing of the kind.”. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
The postillion is a soldier or other government employé, and must be armed to repel robbers. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
The men folks were all away at work, and our postillion was a strapping girl of eighteen, who rode behind Braisted. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
Our postillion was a fine handsome fellow, so rosy and robust that it made one feel stronger and healthier to sit beside him. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
What would you then have thought of the postillion?. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
"What does your excellency, sir?" asked the postillion. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
'In a quarter of an hour the postillion will untie him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
“And is that man the good postillion of whom the people talk?”. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
What a figure we cut! and, my i, what a figger the postillion cut!. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush] Reference
She called herself upon the postillion to drive faster, and pressed. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
He will cease to be a postillion now; from henceforth he will be only. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
Call for post-horses, and as mine is the first turn, I'll be postillion. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
Hastily making my adieus, the postillion cracked his whip, and we started. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes in Switzerland] Reference
“None more useful,” said the postillion; “none could be more useful.”. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
The postillion acknowledged that it was himself who had cried, Hold, villain!. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Early on the morrow, the postillion addressed the people from the market-place. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
The postillion cracked his whip in the air, and sat off as if he was flying for life. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
“And that is the postillion himself, on the pony!” shouted Henri, running after him. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
Away goes the postillion blowing his horn, and young Hannibal has left Capua behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The postillion, who knew her, had carried her thither, and brought her on to Etherington. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
‘Don’t go too fast,’ cried Montague to the postillion; ‘and take care how you go. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
She hurried into the carriage as she spoke, and bade him give directions to the postillion. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
"This is the place for fine muslin and embroideries," said the postillion in a changed tone. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes in Switzerland] Reference
Every one looked after him, but no one smiled or said a word, and the inquisitive postillion. From Wordnik.com. [Mumu] Reference
She told the postillion to wait, and alighting, walked quick and fearfully towards the lodge. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The officer told the postillion to get on; but the way seemed intolerably long to the Chevalier. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Suddenly then, bidding the postillion stop at the end of a lane, he told him he was going to look at. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
"To the palace Cellamare," said the traveller to the postillion; and the latter drove off at a gallop. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Some of them may have had fine equipage and caparisoned postillion, but the most of them were only footmen. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference
It was very evident that there was to be a row in St. Florent that day, and that the postillion approved of it. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
The valet got up behind, and the postillion, who had not left the saddle, whipped up his horses and left in a gallop. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Two servants and an intendant came to the carriage, and the postillion received eight piastres for his human freight. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The postillion cracked his whip, and the panting horses started off with a plunge, as if they would tear up the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The postillion had ridden on the one on the driving side; he was a little punch fellow, and in a pair of boots like fire-buckets. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
He then ordered the postillion to drive on, telling him at his peril to stop no more; Eugenia, in a tone but just audible, saying. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
"Pat," said the host to the postillion, "you know the safest road -- do what I bid ye -- and keep his honor out of trouble if ye can.". From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
My father called out to stop, but the postillion hurried on, until high hedges, and a row of ash-trees at both sides, shut in the view. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
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