A pillion was a padded cushion with straps which sometimes had on one side a sort of platform-stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Then Amalric swung up behind him, pillion fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
They were all to ride, Mary on a pillion behind Mr. Ives. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
"Speak a little louder, Signor Capitano," said his pillion. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The servant returned in a very short time with the pillion, and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
'Cos they can't move nor roar away with a cow sat on the pillion. From Wordnik.com. [The Dorset Juggernaut] Reference
To this sympathetic remark from the pillion, the saddle made no reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
I must go to Lexington to-night, on the pillion, and you must go with me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
They were just going over the hill, -- Jamie, with Margaret on the pillion, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
A pillion and a pillion cloth were bequeathed in 1652, by Captain John Upton, of. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Two privileged grooms to some noble house, each with a woman pillion behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession of Brother Haluin]
You won't mind, Emma, riding pillion behind me, the few miles we have to go today?. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
Turk; but some of the Turkish wounded were too hurt to hold themselves on pillion. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
You got onto the pillion seat behind me, your hands wrapped around my waist tightly. From Wordnik.com. [Rain] Reference
Second, and was probably more like a pillion than the side-saddle of the present day. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses] Reference
A moment later a horseman mounted, and I saw a slender figure on the pillion behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
"Just to make sure I will be the only female pillion rider you will ever have," you teased. From Wordnik.com. [Rain] Reference
I cannot think she would be pleased at the advent of little Bellaroba riding pillion to me. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
“Why not send for Mr Boyce, and carry her off at once on a pillion behind you?” said Lily. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
As we chased the fighting through the streets on a motorbike, she shot pictures riding pillion. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia in Modern History: Beauty and Darkness] Reference
They took a pillion for Margaret, and a shovel to dig through the drifts when they couldn't go round. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
But ere any female appeared to occupy it, he was himself summoned to take his seat on the pillion behind. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
After them -- almost a decade after -- we see a man on horseback, with his wife on a pillion behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
So the mules were brought out, and he lifted his uncomplaining wife on to the blankets which formed her pillion. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
Several clothes-horses, a pillion, a spinning-wheel, and an old box wide open and stuffed full of coloured rags. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
‘Sure there were my sisters,’ said the pillion, now laughing outright in the pride of her conscious superiority. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Next morning the old couple, dame Bevan being mounted on a pillion behind him, proceeded on their melancholy journey. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
I remember making weird faces just to cheer you up and assuring you that you will be my only female pillion rider ever. From Wordnik.com. [Rain] Reference
'What ails ye?' inquired Robson shortly, feeling that his bride was shaking in curious fashion behind him on her pillion. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
You refer, no doubt, to the difficulty of actually identifying the pillion rider, if, by any chance, it was not Mrs Coles. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
And, on a blanket strapped behind the saddle to serve as pillion, rode a woman, with her arms clasped around the man's waist. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Then, preparing to descend from the pillion, she proposed that they should get down and walk so as to ease the mare up the fell. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
"I remember seeing an old pillion in my father's house which was used by my mother, as I have been told, in her early married days.". From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
Mallerden Court; and a horse at last, on every Wednesday, was in waiting to convey them, on a double pillion, to the stately mansion. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
A memorial stone by the wayside records the escape of the King, who was in his groom's dress with Mrs. Coningsby riding pillion behind. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
It was the work of a minute or two to reduce Fatima to order and make her understand that petticoats and a pillion were entirely proper. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
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