postchaise

But luckily we have our own gig because travelling by postchaise is very expensive.

The two-wheeled postchaise normally carried only two people, with plenty of room for their luggage.

Before the Revolution a postchaise from here to Paris was about 250livres; now it is 500.

He had bought a postchaise and various other things for the journey, when he was persuaded to relinquish the design on account of his gout.

'All of this makes travelling expensive: before the Revolution you could take a postchaise to Paris for 213livres; now you have to pay double.

If you use a postchaise (the wagon is too slow), the posts are still the same: thirty-four between here and Paris, and usually ten kilometres (about six English miles) apart.

Having set off in great style from Salzburg in their own carriage, they were now so impecunious that they were obliged to sell it before the frontier and go on by postchaise.

As we have before said, the postchaise was waiting; four powerful horses were already pawing the ground with impatience, while Ali, apparently just arrived from a long walk, was standing at the foot of the steps, his face bathed in perspiration.

He was not in the saddle, but reposed, quite at his ease, on a sort of low foot-board in front of the postchaise, down amongst the horses' tails - convenient for having his brains kicked out, at any moment.

And now his grandmother's furniture began to appear; and a great cartload of it from her best bedroom was speedily arranged in Willie's late quarters, and as soon as they were ready for her, Mrs Macmichael set out in a postchaise to fetch her mother.