An inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders.
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Examples for "posthouse "
1 Our driver took us, according to their custom, to the posthouse .
2 Said my master, Did you send your letter away to the posthouse , my good girl, for your father?
3 Eschar to be gone, I sent my letters by a porter to the posthouse in Southwark to be sent by despatch to the Downs.
4 Granada acquired the Posthouse chain as part of the bitter takeover battle for Forte Hotels in 1996.
5 Granada plans to keep Forte's Posthouse and Travelodge hotels, the moderate and budget chains, while selling off the prestige properties.
1 By the time he reached the post house he was hungry.
2 And the carriage dashed past the post house without stopping.
3 I heard the coachman unhitch the mules, and knew that we had stopped at a post house .
4 We can well imagine the alacrity with which the heirs followed the notary to the post house .
5 The groom is to change horses at every post house , and to use the greatest possible speed.
6 Mr. Ford was asking me to come with him to the post house , and looking at my feet.
7 He led the way to the checkpoint, where the low plaster post house stood well back from the road.
8 Just when some of them were passing the post house the little boy in his play stumbled and fell.
9 The next morning, the 5th Sept., we arrived at Radicofani or rather at an inn or post house facing Radicofani.
10 He and Marume and Fukida left the camp, retrieved their horses, and stood in the inspection line at the post house .
11 I shall direct my next to the post house at Mayence, unless I receive, in the meantime, contrary instructions from you.
12 Marshal Duroc's coach was guarded by one of Napoleon's couriers, known in every post house in Europe as "Moustache."
13 To accommodate this the Russian postal authorities once established a post house on the middle of the lake, where horses were kept for travelers.
14 Excellent meals were served three times a day, and each night a comfortable bed was provided, at the last post house where they stopped.
15 Finally the woman followed a female official into the post house to be examined for the identifying scars and marks specified on her travel pass.
16 All across it were good roads, excellent bridges and frequent post houses .
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