mail-stage

Underground Railroad work: Isaac Slaughter, for instance, the mail-stage driver.

Unwritten History 1919

Late in the afternoon, just before the arrival of the mail-stage, there rode up the bench towards the postoffice a man remarkable even in that company of remarkable men.

Michael McGrath, Postmaster Ralph Connor 1898

As the little group swayed round him, and Billy Goat started another song, Foyle roused himself as though to move away -- he was waiting for the mail-stage to take him south:

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

As the little group swayed round him, and Billy Goat started another song, Foyle roused himself as though to move away -- he was waiting for the mail-stage to take him south:

Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Foyle roused himself as though to move away -- he was waiting for the mail-stage to take him south --

Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897

As the little group swayed round him, and Billy Goat started another song, Foyle roused himself as though to move away -- he was waiting for the mail-stage to take him south:

Northern Lights, Volume 5. Gilbert Parker 1897

The journey, which takes the mail-stage forty-eight hours, took us eight days.

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889

It was three days more before they met the mail-stage fairly laden down with bags of letters for them.

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

I have had a thought of buying a light Jersey wagon, that I may go at the rate of the mail-stage, and visit all the towns and cities in the winter, and go to the westward in the fall; but the greatness of the expense is one difficulty, the badness of the roads another.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

He found the corner of the Los Animos survey for us, ran out the five thousand seven hundred and twenty varas west that our sketch called for, laid a stone on the spot, had coffee and bacon, and caught the mail-stage back to Chico.

Options O. Henry 1886