Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse kept or hired for forwarding post-riders or travelers with speed from one station to another.
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- noun a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers
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Examples
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A person who rides a post-horse, a post-boy; (more generally) a courier, a swift messenger.
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A person who rides a post-horse, a post-boy; (more generally) a courier, a swift messenger.
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Monsieur Firmiani is altogether mythical; he is like that third post-horse for which we pay though we never behold it.
Madame Firmiani 2007
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It was full, and twenty times full, and nobody could be received but the post-horse, — though to get rid of that noble animal was something.
The Holly-Tree 2007
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Ferrybridge, the best inn, then and since, upon the great northern road; and an introduction from Mrs. Bickerton, added to her own simple and quiet manners, so propitiated the landlady of the Swan in her favour, that the good dame procured her the convenient accommodation of a pillion and post-horse then returning to
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It might be said to be as dangerous to be a post-horse as to be a member of the family of Constantine, for he ordered all the horses to be hamstrung after he had done with them, fearful lest Galerius should revoke his permission and order him to return to Nicomedia.
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It was full, and twenty times full, and nobody could be received but the post-horse, — though to get rid of that noble animal was something.
The Holly-Tree 2007
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Monsieur Firmiani is altogether mythical; he is like that third post-horse for which we pay though we never behold it.
Madame Firmiani 2007
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There was the quick rattle of the chaise over the gravel, becoming quicker and quicker, till the vehicle stopped with that kind of plunge which is made by no other animal than a post-horse, and by him only at his arrival at the end of a stage.
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Like the old Irish post-horse, the difficulty and danger of our
The Land of Midian 2003
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