What is "postilions"

Usage examples of "postilions".

Behind him were a pair of postilions with dark faces and eyes whose pupils looked almost yellow in the light from the lamps on the front of the box.

Two dark, husky men of the same race as the postilions got out and stood to either side of the door while a pale-looking fellow followed.

The postilions, stimulated by a promise of a princely DOUCEUR, drove rapidly along over a well-kept road.

The postilions stopped not far from the lighthouse, which marks the entrance of the port.

Jourdan spurred his horse away from the King, noting wryly that the royal coach was ready for flight, coachman aloft and postilions mounted on horses.

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.

Ten miles away on the road from Cambridge a carriage, with four horses and postilions, was moving northward, a carriage in which sat a slim, elderly gentleman, much wrapped up, for the evenings were chilly and his throat was weak.

Suddenly the carriage slowed down, there was a cry from the postilions, and the noise of a ridden horse violently reined up.

Epsom, the place where they last changed horses, see the postilions and try if anything could be made out from them.

I hastened out, and discovered that the lay-brother, whom I left in the chaise, having caught a glimpse of the valet gliding among the ruins, had recognized, seized, and by the help of the postilions, dragged him to the door of the tower.