post horn

So he paid his bill and went, accompanied by the best wishes and blessings of the Post-horn.

For three days the postman had been buried alive, and at last, by dint of digging with his post-horn, he had got free.

The book opens with a "post-horn symphony," well written in the old Romantic style, but not Romantic in tendency.

Suddenly the loud, quivering tones of the post-horn were heard, "Es ritten drei Reiter zum Thore hinaus."