pillion

• I'll return as quickly as I can Then he swings up onto the pillion, the driver walks her machine round and they weave off into the gridlock The apartment is modern and roomy and bright and clean for a man on his own, well furnished and decorated with no signs of a Krishna Cop's work brought home of an evening. —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
• A motorcyclist from Devon is caught speeding at 122mph (196kph) - with his 14-year-old son riding pillion, a court hears. —  The Blog of Kev
• The woman on the pillion was closely veiled, and much muffled in her wrappings, considering the season of the year and the warmth of the weather; nor did she lift her veil when she spoke The child, Alina," she said, in a tone so soft and low that the words seemed rather breathed than spoken The woman who stood beside the horse answered the appeal by placing the child in the arms of the speaker. —  The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel
• A pillion was a padded cushion with straps which sometimes had on one side a sort of platform-stirrup. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• If I'd have thought that she would have done so I would not have carried her away from Arnwood behind me on a pillion, as I did; she might have been burnt with the poor children, for all as I cared Was not the old lady killed Yes; that is to say, she killed herself, rather than not kill Southwold Where was she buried In the churchyard, at Saint Faith's, by the mayor and corporation; for there was not money enough found upon her person to pay the expenses of her burial And so you are tapster at the `Commonwealth.' —  The Children of the New Forest

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