Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house or hotel where post-horses are kept.
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Examples
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The posting-house courtyard had been congested, with several coaches changing their teams, and the postilions from rival services to Beauvais loudly disputing the right to a pair of horses.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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The posting-house courtyard had been congested, with several coaches changing their teams, and the postilions from rival services to Beauvais loudly disputing the right to a pair of horses.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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The posting-house courtyard had been congested, with several coaches changing their teams, and the postilions from rival services to Beauvais loudly disputing the right to a pair of horses.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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In her younger years, a posting-house in such a town was a posting-house; and when M. Faragon married her, the heiress of the then owner of the business, he was supposed to have done uncommonly well for himself.
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IT was fortunate that Michael Strogoff had left the posting-house so promptly.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Less than ten minutes afterwards a Tartar officer appeared in the posting-house.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Consequently, I relapsed into devoting my whole faculties to the distance-posts and their numerals, and to solving difficult mathematical problems for reckoning the time when we should arrive at the next posting-house.
Boyhood 2003
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The mujik and Michael resumed their way and arrived at the posting-house.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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I told the postilions on no account to pass the carriage, but to keep it steadily in view, and to pull up at whatever posting-house it should stop at.
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He awoke only for a minute or two at the next posting-house where he had fortunately secured horses by sending on his man, he told me.
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