Tush, Postil, fair or foul, or far or near, My weary bones must needs be rested here.

If he have waded farther in his profession, and would show reading of his own, his authors are postils, and his school-divinity a catechism.

Chances were not lacking, for Johan's mother was too wrapt up in her postils and religious speculations to watch them closely, and there was always the outhouse to which they could retire for privacy.

The mother went a little oftener, but as a rule something else turned up about the time she ought to start, and so she stayed home and read a chapter in some Lutheran postil instead.

Proc., 115 ("The Degrees of Mariage" and "the Postils" lacking.