post-cart

• “Meanwhile, the post-cart had been landed and the horses harnessed.”

  Resurrection

• “Straight-way the glare of the long sunny day, the rattle and jolting of the post-cart, the toil through the sand, all slip away from mind and memory, and the tranquil delicious present,”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “But the baby is certainly a most unwarrantable digression, and we must return to our post-cart.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “The next step to be taken was to secure places in the daily post-cart, and it required as much mingled firmness and persuasion to do this as though it had reference to”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “Accordingly, we presented ourselves at the D'Urban post-office a few minutes before noon and took our places in the post-cart.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “Scotch plaid, I should have got along very well if it had not been for the still greater stupidity of the only other female fellow-passenger, who calmly took her place in the open post-cart behind me in a brown holland gown, without scarf or wrap or anything whatever to shelter her from the weather, except a white calico sunshade.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “When the third day came and brought no sign of clearing up with it, and very little down to speak of, we agreed to delay no longer; besides which our places in the post-cart could not be again exchanged, as had previously been done, for the stream of returning visitors was setting strongly toward Maritzburg, and we might be detained for a week longer if we did not go at once.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “Maritzburgians all wanting to be taken down to D'Urban within the space of a few days, and there was nothing to take us except the open post-cart, which occupied six hours on the journey, and an omnibus, which took ten hours, but afforded more shelter from possible rain and probable sun.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

• “I had tasted no food since the previous morning at sunrise, and all the Dutch farmers refused me water, so without hat or coat (which I had left on banks of Vaal), and shoes worn through, I arrived exhausted at the above gentleman's place, who kindly drove me to Heilbron, where I took the post-cart to Maritzburg.”

  South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899

• “The rough post-cart track led down into a vast amphitheatre, so vast that Western Europe can furnish no parallel to it.”

  On the Heels of De Wet

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