Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the United States, any road, way, or street, including water-routes, over which the United States mail is carried.
- noun A road on which are stations where relays of post-horses can be obtained.
- noun In the United States, any road, way, or street, including water-routes, over which the United States mail is carried.
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Examples
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Johnson and Powers were unmatchable at the Planet Bike Cup USGP last week, but Anthony has another week of post-road season recoup in his legs and should go better than he did in Madison, Wisconsin, or Las Vegas.
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Duddingston, was for some time the common post-road betwixt Edinburgh and
Waverley 2004
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About five in the afternoon, I had the first glimpse of the famous Pont du Garde, which stands on the right hand, about the distance of a league from the post-road to Nismes, and about three leagues from that city.
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Another great inconvenience which attends posting in France, is that if you are retarded by any accident, you cannot in many parts of the kingdom find a lodging, without perhaps travelling two or three posts farther than you would choose to go, to the prejudice of your health, and even the hazard of your life; whereas on any part of the post-road in England, you will meet with tolerable accommodation at every stage.
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Dolly, and through unfrequented paths conducted his charge to an inn on the post-road, where a chaise was ready for their reception.
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Var, and a post-road made from Nice to Genoa, I am very confident that all those strangers who now pass the Alps in their way to and from Italy, would choose this road as infinitely more safe, commodious, and agreeable.
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I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.
Frankenstein 2003
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Stamford Raffles, such, for instance, as his construction of the post-road from Anjer Head to Banjoewangi, a distance of over 700 miles, at the cost of from twelve to twenty thousand lives; but it is not always easy to estimate at a distance of a hundred years the peculiar difficulties and conditions under which European Governors administered an oriental Colony.
Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid
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+ -- There is a post-road up the Germanasca and down the Guil, an affluent of the Durance, to Mont Dauphin, passing by
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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E. from the Col. 8 m. beyond by post-road is the village of Paesana, the chief town in the valley, and 1778 ft. above the sea.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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