Crossword-Solution: POSTILLION 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Anne, sir, it’s what you would call a jolly mess, ain’t it? looks like “clean bowled-out in the middle stump,” don’t it?’ ‘I fail to understand you, Rowley.’ ‘Well, what I mean is, what are we to do about this one?’ pointing to the postillion in front of us, as he alternately hid and revealed his patched breeches to the trot of his horse.

What? I’m to go firing away in the dark in the cold po’chaise, and not so much as a game of écarté possible, unless I stop and play with the postillion, the postillion; and the whole country swarming with thieves and rascals and highwaymen.’ ‘I beg your lordship’s pardon,’ put in the landlord, who now appeared in the doorway to announce the chaise, ‘but this part of the North Road is known for safety.

The one I liked least of all was one Palillos, who is a gloomy savage ruffian whom I knew when he was a postillion.

During all this time, notwithstanding the noise which I was making, the postillion never showed his face.

The postillion had just dismounted, and was endeavouring to open the gate--at that time a necessary trouble; for in the middle of the last century porter's lodges were not common in the south of Ireland, and locks and keys almost unknown.