What is "postchaise"

Usage examples of "postchaise".

It was late in the autumn, and I was skimming along, through a rich English county, in a postchaise, among tall hedgerows gilded, like all the landscape, with the slanting beams of sunset.

On the day of the ball, towards the evening, I set out in a postchaise, disguised so that not a soul in Cologne could have recognized me, and provided with a box containing two dominoes.

At a little distance off, beside a small wayside inn, we found the postchaise in which sat Baletti's servant.

The clamour that was going on brought up the landlord, who opened your mails, and on finding them empty said that he would be well enough paid by your postchaise, replying only with a grin to the officer who pretended you had given it him.

I cannot tell you how faint mine is at present, when I consider: one unlucky fall on the part of one single unhappy horse, a postchaise losing a wheel, a friend being out of the way, and my ride to London gets me there after the fair - I do not get there for Friday's committee.

I mean, about postchaises, and hiring the boys, and how much it will cost?

He then discovered that the hire of two postchaises and four would result in the whole party’s being stranded halfway between Abbeville and Calais, and was obliged to make up his mind which of two evils was likely to prove the lesser.