postilion
Example Sentences
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He helped stabilize a postilion of need as a platoon designated hitter.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
It weighs four tonnes and is pulled at walking pace by eight grey horses, with a mounted rider or postilion for each pair.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had been traced as far as Romsey, by means of a postilion; but there, too, she had left her lodgings by stealth, in the very middle of the night.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
And now came Jack Mount, riding postilion on the horses which drew the post-chaise; behind him trotted the Weasel, 497 leading out Warlock.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
