A person who rides a post-horse, a post-boy; (more generally) a courier, a swift messenger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

It has a wide reach, and employs electricity more freely than did the oldtime newspaper the post-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884] Reference

The post-horse ridden by Durochat, and abandoned by him on the Boulevard, was found wandering about the Palais Royale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

Monsieur Firmiani is altogether mythical; he is like that third post-horse for which we pay though we never behold it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Firmiani] Reference

It was full, and twenty times full, and nobody could be received but the post-horse, — though to get rid of that noble animal was something.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holly-Tree] Reference

The Persian post-horse is a most wonderful animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference

Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedy of King Richard III] Reference

Till George be pack’d with post-horse up to heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene I. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third] Reference

Like the old Irish post-horse, the difficulty and danger of our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference

Although I went at a smart pace, I did not override the post-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV] Reference

When I dismounted from my post-horse, I hastened to my father's apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference

I had never before had a post-horse that went so fast, and I wondered why.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of the Long Night] Reference

Another great help to our watering places and farmers, would be the repeal of the post-horse tax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rides on Railways] Reference

I have lived long enough to feel, like the old post-horse, very thankful as the end draws near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife] Reference

Ellesmere appears to be carried away by any enthusiasm, that it will break off suddenly, like the gallop of a post-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference

Then he told me that I must pack up my portmanteau that very afternoon, and start that night by post-horse for West Chester.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curious, if True Strange Tales] Reference

I was reduced to an inevitable post-horse kind of endurance; and had only now to be thankful if I might be permitted to exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

Corentin were starting from Gondreville for Cinq-Cygne in a shabby wicker carriage, drawn by one post-horse driven by the corporal of.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Mystery] Reference

The man took a post-horse, and, making great speed, perceived the fugitive in the distance just as the latter had finished changing horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference

Let us live hard, work hard, go a good pace, get to our journey's end as soon as possible -- then let the post-horse get his shoulder out of the collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife] Reference

And the good-hearted fellow, whose eyes had long been very red, broke away at a gallop; but he was back again almost as soon as gone, panting like a post-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

The charge made was 11d. per mile, arising as follows, viz.: -- 7½d. per mile for the horse, 2d. per mile for the rider, and 1½d. per mile for the post-horse duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect] Reference

Till George be pack’d with post-horse up to heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Death of Richard the Third] Reference

155: Till George be pack'd with post-horse vp to Heauen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard III (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

In 1548, the rate to be charged for post-horse hire was fixed by statute (2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

When I dismounted from my post-horse, I hastened to my father’s apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

I will take the reins, and call you my little pigeon, like a true iemschik, and you will trot off like a real post-horse.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

Lay her post-horse, take shipping, and amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Devil] Reference

Desborough’s, why I should die of catarrh, though you see it hurts him no more than a bucket of water thrown over a post-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock] Reference

"It is a poor lame post-horse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

I wish thou wert a post-horse, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7] Reference

Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference

He had been a post-horse for over twelve years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of the Long Night] Reference

Could the poor post-horse tell thee all his woes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

The post-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem] Reference

I’ll pay my fare and take a post-horse at.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Start in Life] Reference