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  • The roads, having been broken up by the heavy rains in the spring, were so rough, that although we travelled very slowly, the jolting occasioned such pain, to my uncle, that he was become exceedingly peevish when we arrived at this place, which lies about eight miles from the postroad, between Wetherby and Boroughbridge.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • This was evidently a highway or postroad, worthy of emulation in other lands, and planned by the Government, a veritable blessing to man and beast.

    Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

  • He followed by turn an old rutted postroad and faint, forest trails, and shortened distances by breaking through the trackless underbrush, watching subconsciously for rattlesnakes.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad.

    Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Halos in Western Art. This was written by postroad.

    GoodShit 2009

  • I had offered to send you a very big collection of photos of the warfare going on but had not given my e-mail address: postroad [at] hotmail. com

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • Why, it's about ten or twelve miles out on the old postroad that Napoleon took for Prague. "

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • Why, it's about ten or twelve miles out on the old postroad that Napoleon took for Prague. "

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • Why, it's about ten or twelve miles out on the old postroad that Napoleon took for Prague. "

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

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