mailcoach

mailcoach

(ˈmeɪlˌkəʊtʃ) or

mailcar

n
(Railways) a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
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On the 20th of August it was known at Marseilles that he had left town in the mailcoach, and then it was said that the bills would go to protest at the end of the month, and that Morrel had gone away and left his chief clerk Emmanuel, and his cashier Cocles, to meet the creditors.
Art 2Day Limited, Jeanines Metal Limited, Kinsley Management Limited, Mailcoach Services Limited, Marbleware Limited having ceased to trade and all having their registered offices at 68 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, Ireland and having their principal place of business at 68 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, Ireland and each of which has no assets exceeding [euro]150 and/or liabilities, have each resolved to notify the Registrar of Companies that the company is not carrying on business and to request the Registrar on that basis to exercise her powers pursuant to section 733 of the Companies Act 2014 to strike the name of the company off the register.
But this was a different story: the short distance of two post-miles [about six miles, the distance between two mailcoach stations where horses were changed] from Falticeni to Neamt was a totally different thing from the six long and tiresome post-miles, neither more, nor less, from Iasi to Neamt Nor am I just trying to be funny when I say that from Neamt to Iasi is the same distance exactly as from Iasi to Neamt.
BRITAIN''S rural highways were once the haunt of the highwayman, the chap on the big horse with a pair of FLINTLOCK pistols, a masK and a tricorn hat, who would hold up the mailcoach with the shout of "Stand and deliver!" But all that tooK place centuries ago and you would thinK such a menace had long been hanged at Tyburn or caged in a gibbet.
World premiere of Honest by DC Moore: The Mailcoach, Northampton.
It then went by ship to Marseilles and from there probably to Southampton and then by train to Birmingham via London and then possibly by mailcoach to Alcester.
If you find something by Kozeluk [sic] or anything else that is good and worth engraving, send it to me by the mailcoach to Frankfurt care of Geil & Hadler, music merchants." (38) Pleyel could have acquired a copy of Artaria's edition of opus 2 from Gayl & Hedler, as that shop affixed its label to the earliest extant copy of Artaria's score; (39) however, the textual comparison discussed below shows that Pleyel's reliance on Artaria's edition for his reprint of opus 2 is murky at best.
Natalie was found with horrific injuries in a property on the Mailcoach Road in the town on Thursday morning.
BRITAIN'S rural highways were once the haunt of the highwayman, the chap on the big horse with a pair of flintlock pistols, a mask and a tricorn hat, who would hold up the mailcoach with the shout of 'Stand and deliver!' But all that took place centuries ago and you would think such a menace had long been hanged at Tyburn or caged in a gibbet.