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Our Postilion was a rare specimen of his species, and a perfectly _unique copy_.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Postilion-belt, a leather belt with a large buckle, worn by ladies about 1860. 1904
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Postilion-belt, a leather belt with a large buckle, worn by ladies about 1860. 1904
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At the simplest level, he pawns the letter to the Postilion, planning on returning later to buy it with the remains of the counterfeit guinea he has cashed.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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But an article in the Postilion de Calais said your husband intended to seize the island of Malta.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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But an article in the Postilion de Calais said your husband intended to seize the island of Malta.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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Two sailors on the Dutch brig Postilion rounding the Cape of Good Hope some seventy years later fared less well.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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The sailors on the Postilion typically died within seventeen minutes.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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It was a species of Diodon that poisoned the Dutch sailors on the Postilion as it rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Senior Eusebioo Seberino, the Postilion that drives my
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