I accelerated or slackened my speed according as I wished to keep at a distance, or to come nearer to the first carriage, and always questioned the postilions respecting the health of the young lady they had just driven.
I paid the postilions double, and arrived long before dark at the hotel where I was accustomed to put up in Paris.
The courier gave notice secretly to the postilionsof the approach of another calèche, and, as he ordered horses for me, I always found the relays ready.
They cursed the postilions for mad cowards, and cut the traces, and seized the wheel-horses, all-wild with dismay in the wet and the dark.
The outfit took the road handsomely, cheered by the soldiers, our black postilions grinning with delight.
The horses were brought back to quarters but never again were their black postilionsseen in those parts.
Over the deep-snowed roads and fields, across ditches and broken fences the gallant pair in mad race took everything on a full run, their postilions now ashy hue with terror and clinging like burs to the bounding animals.
There was every reason to expect that we should get off unnoticed, and I hastened out myself to order the horses and stimulate the postilions to greater activity.
Chalusse, a footman closed the door, the postilions cracked their whips, and the heavy vehicle rolled away.
The postilions unharnessed the horses, and we remained in the carriage.
We were at the moment descending a hill, which from its steepness obliged the postilions to proceed at a more moderate pace.
The postilions that had been driving took out their horses and led them away, and then came themselves to the window of the coupé and held out their caps for their buono mano, as they call it; that is, for a small present.
The postilions did indeed drive very fast, when they once got upon the road.
In the mean time the postilions kept cracking their whips, and the horses galloped on at such a speed that Rollo had scarcely time to see the objects by the road side, they glided so swiftly by.
The postilions started the horses with a strange sort of a cry, that they uttered while standing beside them, and then leaped into the saddles just as they were beginning to run.
But I have something particular to say about the postilionsand the horses, and I will say it in the next chapter.
In the mean time the horses trotted and galloped on until they had gone about ten miles, and then at length the postilions brought them up at the door of an inn, in a village.
The conductor came for his buono mano, the new horses were harnessed in, the postilions leaped into the saddles, and thus both parties set out upon their night ride.
The postilions drove exceedingly fast all the way over the marshes.
In a very few minutes afterwards, the postilions came out with the horses.
The postilions always expect a buono mano from the passengers in the stage coach, especially from those who ride in the coupé.
They soon arrived at the diligence office, where there was a bright light of lanterns, and a bustle of people coming and going, and of postilions bringing out horses.
The postilions dress in a sort of livery, which is quite gay in its appearance, being trimmed with red.
While the passengers were thus getting seated the postilions were putting in the horses, and in a moment more the diligence set off.
In this part of Germany the postilions are no laggards, and we trotted merrily across the wide plain, reaching Bonn long before it was time to refresh ourselves.
Here we found postilionsworthy of their fine track, and, to say the truth, of great skill.
We did not get to the frontier until seven, and the French postilions broke another bolt before we got fairly rid of them, compelling us to wait an hour to have it mended.
A village had been burned, it was thought to excite political commotion, and the postilions began to manoeuvre with us, to curtail us of horse-flesh, as the road was full of carriages.
The King and his brother having laid all the horses in requisition, we did not get away before two; but once on the road, our postilions drove like men who had reaped a double harvest.
We had come into this village on a gallop, driven with the lighthearted étourderie of French vanity, and we left it gravely, under the guidance of postilions who philosophically smoked, as their cattle trotted along like elephants.
It was my consuming ambition to ride leader-postilion to my mother's carriage, and above all to wear the big silver coat-of-arms our postilions had strapped to the left sleeves of their short jackets on a broad crimson band.
My mother always drove out in Dublin in a carriage-and-four, with postilions and two out-riders.
A shrill scene, but a brief one:--the postilions crack and go.
In order to get air I was obliged to leave all my windows open, and bothpostilions smoked incessantly; the vile odour of their pipes sickened me so that I preferred to walk most of the time they smoked, although I was up to my ankles in sand.
What are you gaping at, you postilions over there?
Whilst the postilionswere engaged in making the transfer, he saw the people dancing merrily, pretty and attractive girls with flowers about them, excited youths, and finally the jolly wine-flushed countenances of old peasants.
Calashes, drawn each by 6 Polish Horses, drove by Coachmen and Postilionsin the Polish Habit.
Postilions dress'd in yellow with blue Lace, they had Caps like Dragoons, and the Housings of their Horses were embroider'd with the King's Arms.
Recognized by postilions who met us on the road in April, and arrived at Arnay le Duc by moonlight.
He was an aubergiste, and unusually busy from the influx of travellers, brought by untrue accounts of the road, given as far as Vevay by postilions and innkeepers; of course he gave his verdict in favour of the vetturino.
As the postilions pondered upon this word, the carman, leaving his horse, and car, turned back to explain by action what he could not make intelligible by words.
Seated in the carriage, he threw money to the waiter, hostler, and boots, and drew up the glass, bidding the postilions drive on.
If you love good roads, conveniences, good inns, plenty of postilions and horses, be so kind as never to go into Sussex.
The Conde livery being chamois-colour, with amaranth waistcoats, the postilions must wear amaranth, and so on.
As we drove up to the posting-house, I saw a great crowd, and the National Guard drawn up in two ranks, on the right and left of the postilions who were to take us on.
The Orleans livery being scarlet with a blue waistcoat, the postilions wore blue.
Then came postilions in splendid uniforms, and after them the carriers in blue.
Then she drew in her head; bang went the door; the officer gave an order; the postilions sounded; and away dashed the carriage, the splashing mud and the roar of cannon behind it.
In the evening, before bedtime, in the vast country houses, in the poor cottages, people talk of the coach which is seen drawn by headless horses, with headless postilions and coachmen.
The postilions fastened our sleds behind their own large sledges, with flat runners, which got through the snow more easily than ours.
Our postilions were all boys--ruddy, hardy young fellows of fourteen or fifteen, who drove well and sang incessantly, in spite of the cold.
There was a large house on the top of a hill on our left, and, to our great joy, the postilions drove directly up to it.
We had the same sledges as the previous night, but new postilions and excellent horses.
Our Finnish postilions were pleasant, cheerful fellows, who insisted on our riding when there was the least prospect of a road.
We had gone about a Swedish mile when the postilions stopped to feed the horses before a house on the Russian side.
By this time our horses had arrived, and one of our new postilions prepared himself for the journey, by stripping to the loins and putting on a clean shirt.
I paid our postilions in Norwegian orts, which they laid upon a chair and counted, with the assistance of the whole family.
We warmed ourselves as well as we could, and started anew, having for postilions two rosy boys, who sang the whole way and played all sorts of mad antics with each other to keep from freezing.
Forester did both; but he might have spared his eloquence and his indignation, for the postilions were both in the stable, and his servant agreeably occupied in the bar over the comforts of a smoking tumbler of punch.
To let down the glass and call out to the postilions was a very natural act; to do so with the addition of certain expletives not commonly used in good society, was not an extraordinary one.
Count Vavel took his place beside the coach, and ordered the postilions to drive to Börcs.
It was clear nothing could be done to rescue Madge; and Archibald, who was a man of humanity, could only bid the postilions hurry on to Carlisle, that he might obtain some assistance to the unfortunate woman.
The postilions drove on, wheeling as the Penrith road led them, round the verge of the rising ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postilions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
