"Postillion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... escort were drawn up in front of the Rallowitz palace ready for the start, the princess called the chief postillion, Gartz, to the ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... because it will give you pain. In a few words it was this: Late one evening, in the summer, little Francis Barr was playing in the road, when a carriage, coming along at a full gallop, the horses having taken fright and thrown the postillion, came suddenly upon the poor child, knocked him down, and killed him on the spot. There was no time to send the news to the great house; and, as it happened, Evelyn and Fanny went the next morning, before breakfast, to give the little boy his lesson. When arrived at the lodge, they found ...
— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood
... stranger let fall the reins, and as they trailed on the ground, he snatched the whip from Walther's hand, gave a sudden leap into the air, and vaulted on the back of the near horse, where he sat at ease, and drove postillion, without their being ...
— Funny Big Socks - Being the Fifth Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow
... strength of one or two blotted sheets, to present themselves as colleagues. Many people cannot understand how a man that wrote the Robbers should look like another son of Adam. Close-cut hair, at the very least, and postillion's boots, and a ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle |
