posthorses

A chaise, therefore, was ordered; and with posthorses for speed, and two servants on horseback, the moment Mrs Charlton was ready, they set out on their journey.

Cecilia 2008

The clock had just struck three when they arrived, and Jones immediately bespoke posthorses; but unluckily there was not a horse to be procured in the whole place; which the reader will not wonder at, when he considers the hurry in which the whole nation, and especially this part of it, was at this time engaged, when expresses were passing and repassing every hour of the day and night.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

He traced them to the Lugton Station, where they had taken the railway, and no one could tell him in what direction the carriage and posthorses had driven.

Uncle Silas 2003

Russian, and it proved to be the order of the day which I had been fortunate enough to obtain from the Emperor Alexander to exempt posthorses, etc., from the requisitions of the Allied troops.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

He was met on the way by M. Baillon, M. de la Fayette's emissary, who, seeing that he had no posthorses, took him with him, brought him to Châlons, and there, with the cruellest treachery, denounced him, and had him arrested.

The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

THE Duke arrived with his eldest son as soon as posthorses could bring him.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

Haarlem, and the marquis from Castle Rochebrun, and on Maundy Thursday I received orders to dress the private chapel with flowers, engage posthorses, and do several other things.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

But all that she had done for the man to whom the posthorses were swiftly bearing her seemed to her free from reproach and blameless.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

"Who allowed you, a foreigner, to use the posthorses?"

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

"Who allowed you, a foreigner, to use the posthorses?"

An Egyptian Princess — Complete Georg Ebers 1867