postillion's

'No,' answered another, 'but I can see the postillion's livery, and I am certain it is Sir Hugh Tyrold's.'

Camilla 2008

The frightened horses plunged, and dashed off madly with the vehicle, leaving in the footpad's possession no booty of greater value, however, than the postillion's cap.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Later in the same day the same footpad fired, without effect, on two mounted men, who galloped off and gave the alarm, and a well-armed band setting out from Gosforth soon captured the robber, still with the incriminating postillion's cap in his possession.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

The door closed, the postillion's whip cracked briskly, and they set out upon a journey which to La Boulaye was to be as the passing from one life to another.

The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

The morning stillness, broken by the clear blast of the postillion's horn, reminds the visitor lingering lovingly over the shores at

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

Wogan climbed into the postillion's saddle, describing the while such remedies as he desired to be applied to the sprained leg.

Clementina 1906

When, an hour after leaving St. Priest, the little troop came upon a solitary horseman, riding a heavy carriage horse with a postillion's bridle, de Marmont at first had no other thought save that of malicious pleasure at recognising the man, whom just now he hated more cordially than any other man in the world.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

The postillion's desires were of a piece with the lady's.

Clementina 1906

Now this was absurd; for what with the blare of the postillion's horn, the clatter of hoofs, the jolting and rumbling of wheels, the rattle of glass, our travellers had all the noise to themselves -- or all but the voice of the gale now rising again for an afterclap and snoring at the street corners.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

He had sat there a long time when the noise of wheels and the crack of a postillion's whip roused the dogs chained in the stable.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899