hitching-posts

Lorn and Helkyt rein up at the side of the structure, where there are several stone hitching-posts, dismount, and tether their horses, before making their way to the square arched doorway.

Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

Throwing the bridles of our horses over the hitching-posts at the door, we at once made our way to the bar-room.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

Throwing the bridles of our horses over the hitching-posts at the door, we at once made our way to the bar-room.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

So to the hitching-posts all up the long street are tied tired horses that have come that hot morning from San Fernando, and

The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase

Then came Kitty and Doctor Clark; Amanda and the Parkers; Sarah and the whole crowd of Blakes, big and little; Alec and the General; Debby, and a collection of sisters, cousins, uncles and aunts that overflowed the platform and straggled clear out to the line of hitching-posts, where all of Woodford's family conveyances seemed drawn up at once.

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

I fastened our horses to some of the numerous hitching-posts placed along the roadside for the use of worshippers, and we turned to the iron gate leading into the premises.

The Love Story of Abner Stone Edwin Carlile Litsey 1922

They sped on through the pine forest, talking of village matters, of school matters, and hitching-posts, of politics, of sewers -- but mostly of love.

If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914

The least restless shifting of feet by horses and mules tied to hitching-posts raised clouds of dust, immense reddish ghosts that could not be laid.

It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

Consolidation had a terror for the rural mind, and the state Tribune skilfully played its stream upon the constituents of those gentlemen who stood tamely at the Worthington hitching-posts, and the constituents flocked to the capital; that able newspaper, too, found space to return, with interest, the attacks of Mr. Worthington's organ, the Newcastle Guardian.

Coniston — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Consolidation had a terror for the rural mind, and the state Tribune skilfully played its stream upon the constituents of those gentlemen who stood tamely at the Worthington hitching-posts, and the constituents flocked to the capital; that able newspaper, too, found space to return, with interest, the attacks of Mr. Worthington's organ, the Newcastle Guardian.

Coniston — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909