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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Duddingston, was for some time the common post-road betwixt Edinburgh and ❋ Unknown (2004)
Dolly, and through unfrequented paths conducted his charge to an inn on the post-road, where a chaise was ready for their reception. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Thomas H. Reid (N/A)
+ -- There is a post-road up the Germanasca and down the Guil, an affluent of the Durance, to Mont Dauphin, passing by ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
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. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
The length of post-roads in 1827 was 105,336 miles; in 1837,141,242 miles; in 1847, 153,818 miles, and in the year 1857 there are 242,601 miles of post-road, including 22,530 miles of railroad on which the mails are transported. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
Of the famous ones of the world who had travelled along this Caen post-road and stopped the night here, humanly tired, like any other humble wayfarer, was a hurried visit from that king who loved his trade -- Louis XI. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Italian itinerary you can find, there is no post-road goes near it, only ❋ Various (N/A)
Soon after the Prince came to Halifax he leased from Sir John Wentworth a small villa set in a beautiful property several miles out of town and quite near the post-road which winds around Bedford Basin. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Vergil had doubtless heard of the meteoric rise of this mulio even when he was at school, for the post-road for Caesar's great trains of supplies led through Cremona. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)
It was dark when we came to the barracks of the Second Tsarskoye Selo Rifles, low sprawling buildings huddled along the post-road. ❋ Unknown (1922)
It is on the Plymouth post-road, being one of that string of settlements, built a few miles apart for better protection, that lined the sea, Boston being crowded, and Plymouth full to overflowing, the home-seekers spread out north and south. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
It was a dark, rainy autumn afternoon, and the small boy, who was trudging along the post-road that led to the English river town of ❋ Rupert Sargent Holland (1915)
Soon the houses grew more numerous and the post-road had become a street heading through the heart of an old-fashioned town. ❋ Rupert Sargent Holland (1915)
As a matter of fact Count Fersen drove the party to Bondy, one hour and half beyond the barrier, where he left them at the king's request; the royal family continuing along the post-road, and Count Fersen taking, on horseback, the cross-roads to Bourget and thence to Mons. ❋ Cl (1912)
[Look at that] [thot's] post road ponytail, it's [barely] there. ❋ CandyCurve (2017)
