The ponderous waggon, with its bells and plodding team; the light post-coach that achieved the journey from the White Hart, ❋ Unknown (2006)
So I was obliged to go off as quickly as might be; and the next morning Mamma and my sisters made breakfast for me at four, and at five came the “True Blue” light six-inside post-coach to London, and I got up on the roof without having seen Mary ❋ Unknown (2006)
I now write to you my last letter from London, I mean till I return from my pilgrimage, for as soon as ever I have got beyond the dangerous neighbourhood of London, I shall certainly no longer suffer myself to be cooped up in a post-coach, but take my staff and pursue my journey on foot. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As I still intended to pursue my journey to Derbyshire, I was advised (at least till I got further into the country) to take a place in a post-coach. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This determined me to go in the post-coach from Oxford to Birmingham; where Mr. Pointer, of London, had recommended me to a Mr. Fothergill, a merchant there; and from thence to continue my journey on foot. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Indeed, I was ashamed; and I now write this as a warning to all strangers to stage-coaches who may happen to take it into their heads, without being used to it, to take a place on the outside of an English post-coach, and still more, a place in the basket. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I wonder what Hastings could mean by sending me so valuable a thing as a casket to keep for him, when he knows the only place I have is the seat of a post-coach at an inn-door. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But how could you think the seat of a post-coach at an inn-door ❋ Unknown (2004)
From Oxford to Birmingham is sixty-two miles; but all that was to be seen between the two places was entirely lost to me, for I was again mewed up in a post-coach, and driven along with such velocity from one place to another, that ❋ Unknown (2004)
On Thursday, June 3, the Oxford post-coach took us up in the morning at Bolt-court. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I was surprised at his talking without reserve in the publick post-coach of the state of his affairs; ‘I have (said he,) about the world I think above a thousand pounds, which I intend shall afford Frank an annuity of seventy pounds a year.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
And now I formed the resolution to go to Leicester in the post-coach. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Newbury -- a new post-coach had been set up which performed the journey to Bath in a single day. ❋ Various (N/A)
In due time Mr. Wright put them and their luggage into a comfortable post-coach, and on the road he called “quite rotten, sir,” to London. ❋ Phillips, Mary E (1912)
They went off in a post-coach, and the young squire went on horseback. ❋ Unknown (1909)
But how could you think the seat of a post-coach at an inn-door a place of safety? ❋ Unknown (1909)
At my former visit the journey from Berlin had required nine days and nine nights of steady travel, mainly in a narrow post-coach; now it was easily done in one day and two nights in very comfortable cars. ❋ Unknown (1906)
In those days there was no railroad beyond the eastern frontier of Prussia, and, as the Crimean War was going on, there was a blockade in force which made it impossible to enter Russia by sea; consequently I had seven days and seven nights of steady traveling in a post-coach after entering the Russian Empire. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Having decided to return to America, and the blockade being still in force, he secured a place in the post-coach for the seven days and seven nights 'journey to the frontier. ❋ Unknown (1905)
