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C’est un garcon de bonne fortune, said the landlord, pointing through the window to half a dozen wenches who had got round about La Fleur, and were most kindly taking their leave of him, as the postilion was leading out the horses.
1839, , “Mill-wheels and Other Wheels”, in Hyperion, a Romance., volume I, New York, N.Y.: Samuel Colman, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 164:
The postilion seized one of his fat horses by the tail, and swung himself up to his seat again.
To play the postilion is not an easy thing. It is a trade by itself—half a gunner's and half a groom's. It has to do with horses—that is bad enough ; but also it involves some knowledge of the road.
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16:
A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement.
