postillion
- a variation of postilion.
Example Sentences
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Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel."
From Time Magazine Archive
The custom-house stood at the end of the bridge, and, as matter of course, our postillion stopped there.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by Stephens, John Lloyd
The page flew downstairs as fast as he could, and before the servants had noticed the postillion, he seized hold of the letters.
From Count Br?hl by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
W. and I went in an open carriage, a pair of horses and postillion, and Lord Thurlow, Lord in Waiting, with us.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postillion ominously, as much as to say all was over.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
