mail-coaches

I resolved, therefore, to make the Scottish metropolis my regular resting-place, reserving to myself to take occasionally those excursions which, spite of all I have said against mail-coaches, Mr. Piper has rendered so easy.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Donald MacLeish was one of a race of post-boys whom, I suppose, mail-coaches and steamboats have put out of fashion.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Duntarkin, and intruded its breadth of dust and gravel, and its associations of pochays and mail-coaches, upon one of the most sequestered spots in the Middle Ward of Clydesdale.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences.

Les Miserables 2008

Cambrian antiquary, mail-coaches not only roll their thunders round the base of Penman – Maur and Cader – Idris, but

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

The island rang as yet with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches; a gay sight was the road in merry England in those days, before steam-engines arose and flung its hostelry and chivalry over.

The Newcomes 2006

If it has a merit to it, I should say it was a sort of deliberation and swing to the style, which seems to me to suit the mail-coaches and post-chaises with which it sounds all through.

Vailima Letters 2005

At this time, when there were many mail-coaches, this was a show, and august visitors would sometimes come to see it.

An Autobiography 2004

These devoted men set off at once; and the railroad, which will soon cross the whole of Central America, took them as far as St. Louis, where the swift mail-coaches awaited them.

Round the Moon 2003

Here it is a miner, there a sailor, a cotton-spinner, a weaver, or a miller; and though a small creature, it draws ninety tons of goods, or a whole regiment of soldiers, with a swiftness exceeding that of the fleetest mail-coaches.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston