The posting-house courtyard had been congested, with several coaches changing their teams, and the postilions from rival services to Beauvais loudly disputing the right to a pair of horses. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)
In her younger years, a posting-house in such a town was a posting-house; and when M. Faragon married her, the heiress of the then owner of the business, he was supposed to have done uncommonly well for himself. ❋ Unknown (2004)
IT was fortunate that Michael Strogoff had left the posting-house so promptly. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Less than ten minutes afterwards a Tartar officer appeared in the posting-house. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The mujik and Michael resumed their way and arrived at the posting-house. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The mujik was accordingly conducting his guest straight to the posting-house, when, in a narrow street, Michael Strogoff, coming to a sudden stop sprang behind a jutting wall. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I told the postilions on no account to pass the carriage, but to keep it steadily in view, and to pull up at whatever posting-house it should stop at. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“Who, then, was that young man whom thou didst call thy son a few moments ago at the posting-house?” ❋ Unknown (2003)
He had just recognized in this officer the traveler who had struck him at the posting-house of Ichim. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Consequently, I relapsed into devoting my whole faculties to the distance-posts and their numerals, and to solving difficult mathematical problems for reckoning the time when we should arrive at the next posting-house. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Michael Strogoff urged on his horse, imbuing him with all his own feverish impatience, requiring of him one thing only, namely, to bear him rapidly to the next posting-house, where he could be exchanged for a quicker conveyance. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He awoke only for a minute or two at the next posting-house where he had fortunately secured horses by sending on his man, he told me. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Michael Strogoff, compelled to wait till nightfall, in order to pass the fortifications, but not desiring to show himself, remained in the posting-house, and there partook of food. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Lord of the Manor at that period, the first house there apart from the old posting-house, having been built in the year 1748. ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)
Charleville, I did not think it worth while to go to a posting-house for a carriage and horses to reach Maryfort; but being fortunate enough to obtain the loan of a friend's victoria and servant I got a horse "sharpened" as to his shoes at Ennis; and drove over the frost-bound road to Colonel O'Callaghan's house yesterday afternoon. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)
They stopped only for dinner and the danger was almost past, when, just as they were leaving the posting-house to renew their journey, suddenly a cry made him tremble -- a cry which penetrated to the depths of his soul -- and these two words rushed into his ear, "My son!" ❋ Various (N/A)
Cross posting-house -- had told me that here and there along the coast, but most of all in Cornwall, near Falmouth, there had once been arsenic mines, now long since worked out. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
A porter guided them to the nearest inn and posting-house, and Stephen gave the order for the chaise as they passed through the yard. ❋ Unknown (1917)
