Postilion

(noun.) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman).

手打:洛雷塔

• Georgy continued, there's Francis coming out with the portmanteaus, and Kunz, the one-eyed postilion, coming down the market with three schimmels. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Our postilion is looking after the waggoner, said Richard, and the waggoner is coming back after us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He gave me his arm, and the two officers courteously bowed me out, and we found at the door a phaeton or barouche with a postilion and post horses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The yellow postilion cracked his whip prodigiously, up sprang Francis to the box, away went the schimmels, and Dobbin with his head on his breast. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The postilion cracked his whip, and they clattered away under the feeble over-swinging lamps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I remember they made me laugh uncommonly--there's a droll bit about a postilion's breeches. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He was far more curious, in every swerve of the carriage, and every cry of the postilions, than he had been since he quitted London. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Forward, my postilions! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Suddenly, the postilions exchange speech with animated gesticulation, and the horses are pulled up, almost on their haunches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• At length the new postilions are in their saddles, and the old are left behind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

录入:莉娜