Looking for sentences and phrases with the word postilion? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Measuring 24 ft long, 8ft wide and 12 ft high, the coach is drawn by eight greys, four mounted by postilion riders.
At the bottom the glühwein was flowing freely and the postilion of a horse-drawn sled blew his curly bugle to part the crowds.
Bud Burden and Harold Moffat rode postilion and the group was accompanied by an honour guard of boy scouts.
Brigadier Stephen Saunders's assassination, by a postilion on the back of a motorbike who shot him in his car during the morning rush-hour, had all the hallmarks of a Marxist terrorist group called November 17th.
The postilion driven state landau is a four-wheeled convertible carriage.
Examples from Classical Literature
Rob rode on pumpkinseed's back a good part of the way, like a little postilion.
The harnessing of an Italian diligence is a mystery to all but an Italian postilion.
He shouted to the postilion, and the huge, lumbering vehicle was set in motion.
Gaston took the purse, while a postilion unharnessed a horse and led it to him.
If you will give your horse in charge to the postilion, we will attend you at once.
In five minutes we were in the saddle, with a postilion, also mounted, to accompany us.
As it grew lighter, we were surprised to find that our postilion was a girl.
The postilion laughed with delight, at the thought of the louis d'or.
The postilion stopped at this village to give the horses a little drink.
On his way back an old-fashioned carriage with a postilion passed him.
Some came in cabs, with their trunks on before with the postilion.
But, on the other hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road.
