What is "post-chaise"

Usage examples of "post-chaise".

Madame Cornelis--I Am Presented at Court-- I Rent a Furnished House--I Make a Large Circle of Acquaintance-- Manners of the English When I got to Calais I consigned my post-chaise to the care of the landlord of the inn, and hired a packet.

I left Vienna in a post-chaise, after I had said farewell to my friends, ladies and gentlemen, and on the fourth day I slept in Trieste.

My task was done, and bidding good-bye to all my friends, I set out in my post-chaise for Paris, going by another way for the sake of the change.

Whether they take the Highflyer or a post-chaise, I must catch them before they leave.

She had a post-chaise for two persons, and I easily persuaded her to take Baletti with her, saying that I wished to arrive alone in Mantua for several reasons which I could not confide to her.

He assured us that Steffani had never entered his house, and therefore he could not conceive by what spell, speaking to his daughter only at night and from the street under the window, he had succeeded in seducing her to such an extent as to make her leave her home alone, on foot, two days after he had left himself in his post-chaise.

Madame Cornelis--I Am Presented at Court-- I Rent a Furnished House--I Make a Large Circle of Acquaintance-- Manners of the English When I got to Calais I consigned my post-chaise to the care of the landlord of the inn, and hired a packet.

London, indignant with Jarbe, and angry at being obliged to abandon my Portuguese project, I got into a post-chaise with Daturi, not knowing where to turn or where to go, or whether I had many more weeks to live.

She bought my post-chaise, and I started with two hundred ducats in my purse.

When my affairs were all in order I started in my post-chaise, with the sum of nearly a hundred thousand Dutch florins to my credit, some valuable jewels, and a well-stocked wardrobe.

Vicar, and thinking that all would be well if he were only once more in their midst, one of his parishioners brought a horse, designing to walk by him all the way from Bristol to Madeley Two or three others came and entreated him to travel home in a post-chaise, but his physicians forbade his return to the scene of his old labours, and his parishioners, perforce, returned disappointed.

Since the preceding evening there had been seen from the windows of the neighboring houses two post-chaises in the courtyard of the Elysee, horsed, ready to start, the postilions in their saddles.

Baletti said he would provide me with a faithful servant, and a post-chaise with swift horses, which would take my effects in other mails.

CHAPTER V I Stop at Ferrara, Where I Have a Comic Adventure--My Arrival in Paris Precisely at twelve o'clock the peotta landed me at Ponte di Lago Oscuro, and I immediately took a post-chaise to reach Ferrara in time for dinner.

I was alone in my post-chaise, Le Duc preceding me on horseback, which the rascal preferred to being shut up in a carriage.