Brother Fulkerson left his cabin before daylight one morning for the journey to town, riding his old mare, with his daughter on a pillion behind him.
In another moment Humphrey had grasped his brother's hand, and, turning, lifted his wife from the pillion on which she had ridden with her son.
I am to ride alongside of you, not on the pillion like a babe.
All was in the bustle of departure, and Lucy felt that no one cared on which pillionshe was to ride, nor where her own modest packages were to be stowed.
Lucy looked after her departing visitor, seated on a pillionwith the serving-man, with a scornful smile.
Next the straps of my wife's pillion broke down, and they were obliged to stop to repair them before they could proceed.
There, the last farewells were said, and Caleb, with his sweet girl wife on the pillion behind him, journeyed to their future home.
The saddle and pillion used by this happy pair were very interesting.
Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers did not always drive in carriages, and it was customary for them, when riding on horseback, to sit on a pillion behind a gentleman or a servant.
Now I will go back to the time of Betty's riding off on the pillion behind her lover.
The horse carried double, the girl being on a pillionbehind her lover.
It would be well, as thou mayst not see thy mother for some time; and where is thy new pillion and cloth that thy father gavest thee?
The pillion is in the other part of the house, but we must have it.
Metcalfe smiled as he heard the latch lifted, and took the pillion from her.
He will be quite safe on the pillion with a strap round him and you.
Why," said the first, "when the Princess lands and the King meets her they will bring out to him a bay horse richly caparisoned, with a pillion for the Princess.
And the Prince could say nothing, but offered to take her on his horse to his father's Palace, for in those days ladies used to ride on a pillionat the back of the gentleman riding on horseback.
When it came time for the King to lead the Princess to his palace, some one brought forth a noble bay horse richly caparisoned and with a pillion at the back of the saddle for the Princess to ride on.
He again unbuckled the pillion that he had put upon Hans.
His voice and hands shook while he buckled on thepillion which had become displaced.
There was the pillion which at the last moment Lambert had unbuckled from the saddle.
He mounted, and the Queen was placed on a pillion behind him.
We went on horseback, I on a pillion behind your father just as I had left the town and wearing still my red cloak, but almost for the last time, for it was thought no longer suitable for a married woman.
When she had sold everything but her old white mare she set out for Medway upon the mare's back, taking me with her on a pillion behind.
The river, up and down, was white with sailboats, and across the neck of the peninsula went a line of horsemen, each with his purchase upon a pillion behind him.
I rode in front, with Mistress Percy upon a pillion behind me, and Diccon on the brown mare brought up the rear.
I moved forward to lift her to the pillion as I had done hundreds of times before, but she did not see me.
Daisy, I remember, sat on a pillion behind Mr. Stewart, holding him by the shoulder, and jogging pleasantly along with the motion of the old horse.
Suzanne was to ride on a pillionbehind the Swiss valet of Mr. Fellowes, whom Naomi had taken into her confidence, and the two young ladies each mounted a stout pony.
Just as it was growing dusk the party rode into the hospitable courtyard at Abbotsleigh, and Jane found herself being helped from her lofty pillion by her kindly host and relative.
Sister, you must ride pillion behind your King, and treat him as your servant!
Ay, child; but did he say you might ride pillion behind the preacher?
Dame Forbes received her as she alighted from the pillion on which she had ridden behind Archie, and embraced her tenderly.
So saying, she sprang lightly from the pillionon which she had been riding behind Archie.
Next, the straps of my wife's pillion broke down, and they were obliged to stop to repair them before they could proceed.
After they had entered the hill, Dame Margery climbed down from the pillion and stood looking about her.
After this she came out again, and climbed up behind the little man in green, and so settled herself upon the pillion saddle for her ride.
Young Mr. Beall carried his bride on a pillion behind him, her red riding-cloak flung over her ball dress.
Behind it is the long shed, and in front, rising out of the milkweed and the flowering thistle, the horse block of the first meeting-house, where many a pillion has left its burden in times bygone.
Often we would mount together on the little horse Captain Daniel had given me, Dorothy on a pillion behind, to go with my grandfather to inspect the farm.
Upon a pillion behind her father, Major Miles Carrington, Surveyor-General to the Colony, came Mistress Betty Carrington, bosom friend to Mistress Patricia Verney.
The men can bring the boat back to-night, and Major Carrington will send me home on a pillion to-morrow.
Pedestrians were hurrying on in detachments of five or six--the equestrians in companies less numerous; sometimes the cavalier who could boast a saddle carrying a woman on a pillion behind him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pillion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
