The diligences in question were those between Madrid and Seville, and the sum offered for their protection was not objected to, but another difficulty was started.
I can state, upon certain information received in Madrid, that the principal Spanish diligences pay black mail to the banditti for their protection.
Five other diligences left at the same time, all full.
There was a large enclosed yard in front of the hotel, and this was filled with groups of villagers waiting to see the diligences arrive, or to hire themselves to excursionists for the morrow.
Diligences leave the Cours also for St. Cannat and Lambesc; but the best way is to go on to the next station N.
Louvre; whence the diligencesstart for Grignan and Montelimart (see map, page 56).
The most central station of the diligencesis Le Cheilard (see page 83).
Among the many diligences that start from Digne, the most important is to +Riez+, 26 m.
From Crest diligences run to the towns and villages between it and Aspres (pp.
Pleasant excursions for a very small sum may be taken to all the important places in the neighbourhood by means of the rail and the diligences and omnibuses which start from the Place Grenette.
The ingress, again, of foreigners by the facilities offered to travellers by the increased novelties of steamers, mails, and diligences necessarily called for more waiters and inns.
The diligences also are imitations of the lumbering French model.
These Spanish diligences are certainly most amusing for a time, and thenceforward most wearying.
We are now informed that the "mail-coaches and diligences have been found to answer so well that they will be generally adopted throughout the kingdom, and conveying of them in carts will be discontinued.
I took that journey on foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly!
I had only to go away; there are diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going.
On entering, he observed several doors leading to various offices, with inscriptions over each containing the names of the various towns to which the several diligences were going.
In fact, he recognized the place at once when he came near it, by seeing several diligences standing before it along the street.
The diligences had stopped running for the season; but what of that?
I found it no easy matter to get comfortably from Agen to Pau: cross-country diligences are most untrustworthy conveyances.
Diligences by the score lie scattered around; and every now and then the dogs'-meat old horses who draw them go stalking solemnly across the square beneath the stunted lime-trees.
And in the station yard the diligences for Arta, for Capdepera, for San Lorenzo, were drawn up prepared to start as soon as the train had arrived and their passengers had climbed into their seats.
From Iviza diligencesrun to San Antonio, to Santa Eulalia, to San Carlos, San Jose, and San Juan, and the fare is fivepence.
At stated times diligences run the twelve miles between Palma and Valldemosa, and the charge is only sevenpence-halfpenny.
When we alighted at the station twodiligences were waiting, one for Pollensa, the other for Alcudia.
And then to show the power of his engines, Mr Stephenson attached all the cars, omnibuses, anddiligences together, and directed the Elephant to take us back without assistance from the other two engines.
It was not eight o'clock, yet already the diligences and private carriages going over the Grand St. Bernard had departed with a jingling of bells and sharp cracking of whips which had first informed me that it was day.
He is the bourgeois of Beaumont, where he keeps a hotel, at which all the diligences stop, and he has a wife and daughter who are not a bad help to him.
It resembled those diligences called "Gondoles," which now ply, in rivalry with the railroad, between Paris and Versailles.
In the Rue Notre-Dame des Victoires is the immense establishment of the Messageries Royales, from whence start diligences to all parts of France; we will pass through the yard into the Rue Montmartre, at No.
In all the diligences throughout France the places are numbered, and he who comes first has the first choice, in which case most persons choose No.
Montmartre, next to the great establishment of the Messageries royales, from whence depart the diligences for all parts of France.
Lanterns were dancing about the square, two great diligences loomed up before them, horses were tramping, men shouting, and eager travellers scrambling for places.
Passing the diligences the little carriage went rapidly on, and soon the three were almost alone.
They were dining at the house of a man named Hutin, where all the diligences stop on their way between Laon and Paris.
The diligenceson this route are a solution of the problem, often declared impossible by American stage-drivers, of making a coach where all the seats are outside ones.
Between Geneva and Chamouny, a distance of about fifty miles, there are sometimes a dozen diligences each way daily in summer, all of them filled with passengers.
Diligences are in use all over Europe to reach towns and villages that are not accessible by rail.
At present the greatest country of diligences is Switzerland; they are to be found on many roads of that mountainous region, and on some routes they have a heavy patronage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diligences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
