post-house

There were four hundred miles of that interminable plain, getting worse as it went on; it took us about five days, as near as I remember, with the telegues going like blazes, and new horses at every post-house.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

My heart rises against it, especially when I sit down to record my sufferings in this journal, and I am determined, as the first step to my deliverance, to have my letters sent to the post-house.

Redgauntlet 2008

Fairford, who had made a small detour to put his letter into the post-house, reached the mansion of Mr. Provost Crosbie, and was at once greeted by the voice of that civic dignitary, and the rural dignitary his visitor, as by the voices of men impatient for their dinner.

Redgauntlet 2008

As the carriage came out from beneath the green-roofed aisle of walnut trees by the post-house of la

A Woman of Thirty 2007

At a post-house in the wood we changed horses, and put on some lanterns, not for the purpose of assisting ourselves, but to guide the boy-driver of a waggon or “extra,” who, having the responsibility of conducting four horses, came clattering close behind us.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

I moved to Atlanta in ` 91 and got a job as an assistant editor/gopher for a post-house here.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2005

‘To be left till called for, at the post-house at Hertford.’

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

He is noting the horses as they come squealing out of the post-house yard at midnight; he is enjoying the delicious meals at Beauvais and

Roundabout Papers 2006

Ay, thought I, so I doubt, by the hint Mr. Williams gave me about the post-house.

Pamela 2006

“You have managed those fools as well as Desroches, the best lawyer in Paris, could have done,” said Goupil to his patron as they left the post-house.

Ursula 2006