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

He was delivered from them by their taking fright at the noise of the postilion, who, uneasy at the long delay, had come to see what had happened to the traveler.

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.

A loud clack—clack—slap—tap—crack—crack of the whip, flourished over his head with all the gusto and the savoir-craquer of a true postilion, brought me to myself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various