Mounted messengers rode back and forth among the three columns each day.

As mounted messengers carried the news beyond Philadelphia, celebrations broke out everywhere.

His maternal grandfather joined the army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

A mounted messenger trotted up to him and saluted.

He shouted to a mounted messenger below.

The state of the voting was collected hourly from the different booths by mounted messengers and announced.

Mounted messengers galloped hither and thither through the steep, winding streets.

Mounted messengers sped from Gergovia at dawn.

Correspondence between Saint Petersburg and Warsaw, carried by mounted messengers, took two weeks.

We were dangerously close to its back hooves as the guards parted for the mounted messenger, unwittingly letting us through the briefly emptied space.

The Doctor mentioned two names; and within a few minutes a mounted messenger was galloping to Norcester, the nearest telegraph centre.

Rufus looked back at Beaumont, who indicated the mounted messenger carrying the same white banner Pertin had earlier dropped.

The three mounted messengers came galloping toward Gaius Aldus; they slowed, then dismounted and saluted him.

Mail service between Büdingen and Frankfurt am Main began in 1739: one mail coach and two mounted messengers a week.

Telegrams and mounted messengers were sent to nearby Canterbury and Faversham calling for such fire engines as were available.

It became a halting post along the newly introduced regular mail routes connecting Damascus and Cairo, which were run by mounted messengers with colored sashes.

For the next three years, Burnham worked as a mounted messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company in California and Arizona.

Fred was an outstanding horse rider, and he knew the environs around Los Angeles, so he landed a job as a mounted messenger with Western Union.

Not content with physical labor, he spent long hours at night with Tuero, sending out messages, some by drum but others in sealed letters conveyed by mounted messengers.

Fu then beheaded the king of Louloan and sent his head by the mounted messenger service to the palace, where it was suspended at the Northern Tower.

For Tharks they were wildly enthusiastic, and before another half hour had passed twenty mounted messengers were speeding across dead sea bottoms to call the hordes together for the expedition.

Had then the tall stranger been sighted, and was this the mounted messenger, come to bring the great news, that the hunted hare had run its head into the noose at last?

They had passed farmers and soldiers and merchants with pack trains, and once even a pair of mounted messengers wearing the badge of the Bishop of Dhassa himself.

The latter in his distress sent a mounted messenger over to Choisy with a hurriedly written note to his chief, demanding that the prisoner be removed from the village as quickly as possible.

The form Tartar has its origins in either Latin or French, coming to Western European languages from Turkish and Persian Tātār ("mounted courier, mounted messenger; postrider").