mailcoach

• On the 20th of August it was known at Marseilles that he had left town in the mailcoach, and then it was said that the bills would go to protest at the end of the month, and that Morrel had gone away and left his chief clerk Emmanuel, and his cashier Cocles, to meet the creditors. —  The Count of Monte Cristo
• Dillon and Meagher left Dublin on the night of the 22nd of July by the mailcoach for Enniscorthy. —  The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848
• I pass over the ghostly mailcoach horses that flew through the night in "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle," flowing - maned, black horses. —  Pickwickian Studies
• People flocked to Lancashire from all quarters to see the steam-coach running upon a railway at three times the speed of a mailcoach, and to enjoy the excitement of actually travelling in the wake of an engine at that incredible velocity. —  Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
• But only those whose memory still carries them so far back, can feel within them any reflex of that eager excitement with which the news of battles fought and won, or mailcoach copies of some new work of Scott, or Byron, or the _Edinburgh Review_, were looked for and received in those already old days. —  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850

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