Upon which he bid the postillion alight, and look into the ditch.
A lady, who heard what the postillion said, and likewise heard the groan, called eagerly to the coachman to stop and see what was the matter.
Any thing from riding postillion on the leaders to officiating as brides-maid, and I am your man.
We rattled into the ample porte cochere of a vast hotel--the postillion cracking his enormous whip, and bells ringing on every side, as if the crown prince of Russia had been the arrival, and not a poor sub.
She did so under the impression that we were going back to her mother's, but without taking the trouble to undeceive her I had a carriage and pair got ready, and told the postillion to drive to Uccellatoio, the first post on the Bologna road.
When I saw that the postillion was slackening his speed, I increased the amount of the present I was going to make him, and once more we rushed along at a headlong pace.
The postillion is a liar, I told him nothing of the kind.
Yes, but you told your postillion that you were, and that comes to the same thing.
I had been in the carriage for two or three minutes when the postillion came and asked me if we had much longer to wait.
I am sorry for what has happened, sir, and above all that you think you have good reason for complaint, inasmuch as I only did my duty, for how was I to imagine that your postillion had called you a messenger on his own responsibility.
He got out, telling us that the postillion had just gone into the inn to have a glass of beer and light his pipe.
The postillion cracked his whip and the sentry called out, "Who goes there?
He ordered the postillionto pass on with the carriage.
However, I covered the postillion with my own pistol, threatening to fire if he did not drive on, and the robbers discharged their weapons at the carriage, not having enough spirit to shoot the postillion.
At seven o'clock next day I set out, and as soon as I had passed the Aix la Chapelle Gate, I told the postillion to stop and wait for me.
When the horses were put in I embraced Baletti, his little girl, and his pretty housekeeper, and ordered the postillion to drive to Mannheim.
When we reached Mannheim I heard that the Court was at Schwetzingen, and I bade the postillion drive on.
The postillion went off, and we followed him in half an hour.
The wounded postillion has followed him; and as he speaks Italian very imperfectly, there's no knowing what may happen to him.
He then tapped the postillion on the shoulder, and said to him, with the laconism compulsory on him from his knowledge of the Swedish tongue, "Aland?
At the extremity of this forest, the postillion turned toward the traveler, and with his finger pointed out to him a spot so distant that it could be distinguished with difficulty.
In the midst of all the sublime and beautiful I had a happy mixture of the comic, for we had a Welsh postillion who entertained us much by his contracted vocabulary, and still more contracted sphere of ideas.
The postillion was not the least hurt, nor the horses; if they had not been the quietest animals in the world we should have been undone: one was found with his feet level with the other's head.
He let down the glass, and ordered the postillion to drive up to Dr.
And to be quite sure, I myself ran down into the town, and handed the letter to the postillion who was just preparing to start for Prussia.
Three times I was on the point of returning to ask my letter back, but when I did so in good earnest the postillion was already far away.
The postillion cracked his whip; Pierre shouted to his horses; the heavy coach groaned and creaked and was once more on its way.
Another postillion stuck around with pistols and knives looked like a military museum on its travels.
The postillion is a soldier or other government employé, and must be armed to repel robbers.
A postillion accompanies each convoy, and is responsible for its security.
There was room for a postillion on the shelf with the driver, the two sitting back to back and their legs hanging over the side.
Boddington and flung the postillion to a great distance.
The postillion was struck, but not one other person was touched, though the carriage was full of women and children.
Hastily making my adieus, the postillion cracked his whip, and we started.
As we passed through this belt, and came out, with cloud and mist below us, I listened as the postillion related the popular legends handed down from one generation to another, for the last six hundred years.
This is the place for fine muslin and embroideries," said the postillion in a changed tone.
The postillion was ahead of me, but hearing the noise made by the fall he came up and disengaged me; I was not hurt, but my horse was lame.
In the warmth of her thanks, which lasted until her postillion and mine had righted the cabriolet, she often called me her saviour, her guardian angel.
No, sir, not even if the horse belonged to you, for the postillion preceded me.
No one thought of being astonished at my other postillion having remained behind, and we started at full speed.
Giving her orders to the postillion on the pavement in the morning, she named a South-westerly direction out of London, and after entering the chariot, she received a case from one of the footmen.
The report of the postillion was, on the whole, favourable.
Weyburn acted on his instinct at sight of the postillion and the chariot; he flung the window wide and shouted.
The postillion had his foot in position to spring.
The thinking of the lesson to Morsfield on the one hand, and of the slow-and-sure postillion Joshua Abriett on the other, lulled Lord Ormont to a short repose in his desolate house.
Besides, the slowness of the postillion Joshua Abnett, which probably helped to the delay, was warrant of his sureness.
A travelling coach passed by below, the postillion wound his horn, and the poor nuns looked after the carriage for a moment with a mournful glance, and a tear gleamed in the eyes of the younger one.
Sometimes, but very seldom, he heard of Christina, through a postillion or eel-seller who was passing.
The postillion blew his horn, but he only thought, 'I can play capitally.
Thinking him extremely rude I turned my back and went downstairs, arriving just in time to prevent the postillion taking out the horses.
I put my hand in my pocket and gave the man my card with my name and address, and telling him that that was what his master wanted, I ordered the postillion to drive off at a full gallop.
Just as the postillionhad got on horseback a servant came running up.
On mentioning my design of proceeding by myself to Strasbourg, the Postillion shook his head in disapprobation.
To this I readily assented, telling the Postillion that my reaching Strasbourg the next day an hour or two later would be perfectly immaterial.
Such was my situation, when the perfidy of Don Alphonso's postillion conducted him to the Cottage.
But the postillion having told his fare that he saw a man coming on at full speed, the chevalier supposed himself to be pursued, and bade him go on as fast as possible.
The postillion was obliged to get some peasants from the neighbouring village to help us.
The Count scarcely breathed, when he received assistance, and the postillion was dashed to pieces against the rocks.
The postillion and I then determined on retrograding two miles, the distance of the nearest village, and remaining there till morning.
We had, therefore, the choice of going forward or backward, the postillion and myself helping the carriage on with our hands, or to take refuge at the lone house till dawn of day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postillion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
