No more than that he told the two postboys he would give them a Napoleon each.
Knight now let down, while he called aloud to the postboys to make haste and bring out the horses.
They had now reached a little glen, where the postboys were obliged to walk their blown cattle; emerging from this, they passed a thick grove of beech, and at once came in sight of the abbey.
The man-servant had dismissed the postboys after they had baited their horses, saying they were to come again in the morning, and bring a blacksmith to repair the wheel.
Without waiting to ascertain the effect of his shot, Cumberland again compelled the postboys to proceed, and by the time the groom reached the scene of action the carriage was rapidly getting out of sight.
With a sensation of horror, such as I do not remember ever before to have experienced, I shouted to the postboys to stop, and, springing out, hastened to join the crowd collected by the roadside.
Anquetil, who ordered the postboys to hurry their horses, promising them extra good tips.
He gave the postboys the order to be ready on the following morning.
I seated myself under the waggoner's porch, where the postboys drank white wine and played the deuce with the servants.
At the distance of three leagues from Montbard, one of the harnesses broke, and, the postboyshaving failed to bring rope with them, we were detained on the road, as the place of the accident was far from any human dwelling.
In a heap of croups and legs and steaming bellies, one of the postboys was buried, his boots in the air.
Anquetil, in rough, barrack-room style, promised to get the postboys hanged.
The postboys tell us that yonder is Montbard, a place utterly unknown to me.
However this may have been, it was known to travellers, coachmen, and postboys along the road only as “Greetham Inn.
If I could not, nothing remained but to pull up, and ignominiously beckon to thepostboys to pass on the wrong side.
If a tailor be the ninth part of a man, certainly the weazened postboys (who ever saw a fat one?
Repose and rest have been unknown, unless exemplified by postboys asleep in the saddle.
Everybody posted, money was spent like water on bribery and corruption, and on more reputable items of expenditure, and postboys shared in the golden shower.
You and I are two fools, my dear sir, or we should have mounted the two posters, and let the postboys get themselves out of the scrape they had got themselves into.
By this time the postboys were out of their saddles and the servant was hobbling up.
If she shrieked the postboys must come to her help, or she could command help at the next stopping-place.
Just then one of the postboys yawned and stretched himself, making noise sufficient to awaken his fellow, who rose from the bank and flicked his whip.
The steps approaching were not those of a lady and gentleman, but of Lord Carboro' and Barclay, who, in utter ignorance of anyone but the postboys being at hand, stood for a few minutes listening.
It was the work of minutes, then of moments, when Linnell, who was now leading in a break-neck gallop, yelled to the postboys to stop.
He was leaning towards the postboys as he spoke, but as the words left his lips they were half drowned by a piercing shriek that rang out upon the night, sending a thrill through every bystander.
But the next moment the postboys began to free the leaders from the harness, and to mount and ride them into the water; and in the excitement of the scene, she forgot her suspicions.
The postboys left them in the carriage the other side of Beamond's," the woman answered, delighted to gain a listener.
The summit of the ridge gained, the postboys rose in their stirrups and looked back, waving a farewell.
The postboys came back with the news, and about the same time Mr. Watkyns came by the main road through Lewes, and knew naught till he was here!
Then word was passed to the horses, the postboys cracked their whips, and, with a bound, the carriage stood again on firm ground.
I did ask the gentleman to go," Watkyns answered with a sniff of contempt, "or else to ride on with the postboysand guide them.
The postboys had been sent ahead to Lewes to get fresh horses.
Encouraged, the postboys cracked their whips and followed, the carriage swayed, Pettitt screamed; for a moment the water seemed rising all round them, the next they were across and jolting up the farther bank.
From the window Lady Betty continued to wave her handkerchief, until, Watkyns and the woman having taken their seats outside, the postboys cracked their whips and the heavy vehicle moved forward.
The grooms rode more briskly for her presence, the postboys looked grinning over their shoulders; even the gibbet that marked the turn to Tooting failed to depress her airy spirits.
He would fain have bidden the postboys hasten, but he was ashamed to give the order before her.
The postboys were growling, and she half feared that Endymion would abandon the journey for the day.
Sometimes, too, Polly would announce a post-chaise, and the telescope decide whether the postboys wore the blue or the buff.
They had not walked a furlong before a traveling-carriage and four horses came dashing along, and heads were put out of the window, and the postboysordered to stop.
And changed as quickly as hearts after marriage; The obsequious landlord hath the change restored; The postboys have no reason to disparage Their fee; but ere the watered wheels may hiss hence, The ostler pleads too for a reminiscence.
The very postboyswere found carrying letters outside the mail for what fees they could obtain.
Up to this period the mails were carried by postboys riding horse.
In 1722 the postboys were robbed twice in a single week, and for the crimes three men were executed in London.
Probably, however, the postboys who carried the mails in earlier days rode up the steep incline.
Proposals for the postboys to be furnished with pistols, cutlasses, and caps lined with metal, like hunting caps, for the defence of the head, fell through on account of the expense which their supply would have entailed.
A robbery from these postboys carrying the mails between London and Bristol was a common occurrence.
The Devon clothiers had a considerable trade with the wool dealers of the district of Cirencester, which town was served by the postboys riding between Gloucester and London, with a branch postboy mail to Wotton-under-Edge.
The mail service was carried on chiefly by means of postboys (generally wizened old men), who continued to travel on worn-out horses not able to get along at a speed of more than four miles an hour on the bad roads.
As to the exposure in wintry weather, it is stated that postboys on reaching the end of their stages were sometimes so benumbed with the cold that they had to be lifted out of their saddles.
He was joined farther on by two postboys on other horses with the bye-bags, and all three journeyed in company.
One of the postboys concerned stated in his declaration that his whole wages were 5s.
The postboys were a source of great trouble and vexation to the authorities of the Post-office through the whole course of their connection with the department.
Of the attacks made upon postboys by highwaymen, some instances more or less tragic are given in another chapter.
And changed as quickly as hearts after marriage; The obsequious landlord hath the change restored; The postboys have no reason to disparage Their fee; but ere the water'd wheels may hiss hence, The ostler pleads too for a reminiscence.
The coaches follow them, filled with the wives and children, friends and relations, of the guards or coachmen; while the postboys sounding their bugles and cracking their whips bring up the rear.
The postboys scarcely looked round; but their spurs were buried in their horses, and the animals flew on like lightning.
The two robbers who had so decisively rid themselves of the postboys acted with no less determination towards the horses.
I do not doubt you," said Mauleverer; "light the lanterns, and tell the postboys to drive on.
At last the horses were hooked on and the postboys in their saddles and boots.
Viscount, urge on the postboys and ride on before.
Isidore Charny, who had been over the road with his brother, would ride on ahead; he would get the postboys ready so that no delay would be incurred.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
