A post house, posthouse, or posting house was a house or inn where horses were kept and could be rented or changed out.
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Examples for "post house"
Examples for "post house"
1By the time he reached the post house he was hungry.
2And the carriage dashed past the post house without stopping.
3I heard the coachman unhitch the mules, and knew that we had stopped at a post house.
4We can well imagine the alacrity with which the heirs followed the notary to the post house.
5The groom is to change horses at every post house, and to use the greatest possible speed.
1I alighted before the post station, and entered the house and was welcomed by the station master.
2Nekhludoff sent the young labourer to the post station to order horses and began packing up hurriedly.
3At the Torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster would not supply them.
4We rushed her to Odawara post station.
5At each post station he was arrested.
6I felt sorry for the poor horse, and reproached myself for not having tarried at the last post station.
7So they stopped at a small post station, woke up the attendant, and were shown into the only bedroom.
8I came late to a post station where I intended to spend the night, for I was very tired.
9I only stopped the night in Karasjok, and after getting new reindeer at the post station and a new guide, started north.
10From Stockholm I drove to Upsala by road-forI did not care for railway travelling-changinghorse and vehicle at every post station.
11There was a small post station that was also a livery and a farrier, and a small church that was also a brewery.
12Very injudiciously he quarreled with the drivers at a post station about the payment of ten copecks, which he alleged was an overcharge.
13A little further on we came to the post station-andhow glad I was to spend the night there-toget into a feather bed.
14At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded.
15These are post stations where you can remain until the weather is good.
16Tzara.- Adocument ,givingthe right to receive horses and oulatchens at the post stations.
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