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The postboy yelled, and an amazed Face from the carriage window gazed.

He also appeared in Scoop as the postboy in the first four episodes of the new series.

"See that these are sent back to London, please," he ordered, handing the notes to the postboy with a coin.

'This way, gentlemen; don't trouble yourselves about the postboy now, sir.

He became a rural postboy under the Uxbridge post master, who was also a printer and stationer.

By-the-way, I have arranged for daily communication between us through the postboy who takes the letters to Troyte's Hill.

The postboy caught sight of him at the same moment, reined in, and called back to the chaise behind, 'It's Butcher Jeffrey, Tom.

This done, the postboy drove off; Giles, Mr. Maylie, and Oliver, followed at their leisure.

Matt is a lowly postboy at 'Passion', a fashion-based advertising agency, whilst Daisy is a young, ambitious girl on work experience.

'Never know'd a churchyard were there wos a postboy's tombstone, or see a dead postboy, did you?'

On 11 March 1802, highwayman Robert Snooks was hanged at the scene of his crime on Boxmoor for the robbery of a postboy.

Her only other race of 1780 was in October, when she beat Postboy in a match over the two middle miles of the Beacon Course at Newmarket.

It is during his time as postboy that his theatrical interest was aroused; he was often called upon to read out the contents of letters to the villagers, many of whom were illiterate.

Emmett's use of Dixie was as a personal name, given to a black postboy, and may have been used as to indicate that the character, played by a white actor, was in fact black.

Tom Chist took up his lodgings at a coffee house near to the town hall, and thence he sent by the postboy a letter written by Parson Jones to Master Chillingsworth.

Later, he played small parts in several TV shows, including a role as a postboy in the soap opera Compact and, after a dry spell, a non-speaking role as a Dalek operator.

IT WAS a brilliant moonlight night, but extremely cold; our chaise whirled rapidly over the frozen ground; the postboy smacked his whip incessantly, and a part of the time his horses were on a gallop.

Just like Branson, Elliott had run his business with a curious mixture of post-hippie idealism and proprietorial droit de seigneur ; for many years, all staff, from the postboy to the editor, were paid the same amount.

I beg your pardon, Mr. Harry,' said Giles: giving a final polish to his ruffled countenance with the handkerchief; 'but if you would leave the postboy to say that, I should be very much obliged to you.

The business of con veying the Brydges, their chattels and correspondence occupied a coach man, postilhions, a stableman, the postboy who rode to and from London every day on a Welsh mountain pony and the running footmen.

After leaving school Reeve took a series of jobs, including working in a supermarket, a jewellery shop, and a charity shop, before he started researching and writing in his spare time while working as a postboy at a British newspaper.

'Wos you ever called in,' inquired Sam, glancing at the driver, after a short silence, and lowering his voice to a mysterious whisper--'wos you ever called in, when you wos 'prentice to a sawbones, to wisit a postboy.' '

The postboy was driving briskly through the open streets, and past the handsome and well-lighted shops that intervene between the outskirts of the town and the Old Royal Hotel, before Mr. Pickwick had begun to consider the very difficult and delicate nature of the commission which had carried him thither.