One of the wheelers, however, uttered a sigh now and then as if unhappy in its dreams, for it was suffering not from nightmare, a trouble that might have befallen any horse, but from the weight of the sleeping postboy on its back.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
"He may be inside," she said softly, and going on tip-toe to the door her hand was raised to the fastening, when one of the wheelers snorted and half roused the mounted postboy.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
The grooms jumped from the horses heads, the wheelers sprang into their collars, and the trap rolled away from the station.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor