The postmistress got a sort of half-smile on her face. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
Which led her mind to Bonnie Jeppsen, the postmistress. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
One daughter, an intelligent young lady, is postmistress and. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Ella Macklin, the postmistress, was clasping her jewelry box. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
After the senator's death, she became postmistress in Marietta. From Wordnik.com. [Lucius D. Clay: An American Life] Reference
The postmistress handed him back through the grill his card with. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
She was the first postmistress anyone had heard about, and rural North. From Wordnik.com. [Kary B. Mullis - Autobiography] Reference
I knew Miss Quick — she was postmistress, after all, everyone knew her. From Wordnik.com. [the deer leap]
And the lady who was postmistress at the college was Mrs. Smith, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harvey E. Beech, September 25, 1996. Interview J-0075. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
It is a wonderful thing to know your grocer and postmaster (or postmistress). From Wordnik.com. [No consternation (and no DSL)... yet.] Reference
I got that piece of information from the old postmistress where we used to live. From Wordnik.com. [Reunion] Reference
The silence following this statement on the part of the postmistress was instantaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
At night Ida Mary, as postmistress, would lock the mail sack and carry it into the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
"Yes," answered the postmistress, with a real motherly note, "here is one from Hugous & Co.". From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
I happen to know that Brenda is very close to our postmistress, who lives across the street. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
So I went into the Post Office, right, and Catherine (ph) is there -- well, my postmistress. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998] Reference
“It is all of a piece with the villains that owned it,” the postmistress exclaimed at last. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
"No, not even the postmistress … Especially when she is on her bicycle" – that kind of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide] Reference
He had a twinkling face, all circles and pouches, but it grew graver as he spoke to the postmistress. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
“And you are the crossest old woman,” said Lily, laughing, and giving her hand to the postmistress. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
A postmistress ... she, a postmistress! ... forced to step out into the open, become a kind of public woman. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
"You should get a sheet of each," the postmistress helpfully suggested, "More and more people are doing that.". From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: The War on Christmas: An Exit Strategy] Reference
Gail Owen, the postmistress at nearby Cwmavon, is worried that recent post-office closures will cost her her job. From Wordnik.com. [Britain: On The Campaign Trail] Reference
So we had a postmistress and a post office, with its tiers of empty, homemade pigeonholes ready to receive the mail. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
If I had it to do over, I would have walked up to the postmistress and said "How many Pulitzer Prizes do YOU have???". From Wordnik.com. [most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps] Reference
In a few minutes more the group in the post-office began to disperse under the skilful manipulation of the postmistress. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
BARKER: In one corner, a glassed-in booth serves as the village post office and gossip central, says postmistress Juliet Carter. From Wordnik.com. [British Villages Rescue Vital Community Services] Reference
As a postmistress, you would have a house rent-free, with free lighting and firing, all sorts of perquisites, and a fixed salary. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Half-way down was the Post Office, and on the steps of it stood the postmistress and a policeman hard at work conning a telegram. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
In this anxiety for news I begged that my letters might be forwarded under cover to the postmistress at Shoxford, and bearing my initials. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
What does this have to do with the postmistress who withholds mail?. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
'What would you think of a postmistress who chose not to deliver the mail?'. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
(Monday, August 9) after confronting the sub postmistress as she was opening up. From Wordnik.com. [icCheshireOnline] Reference
• Appointing the first woman to hold public office, the postmistress of Boston. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
She is approaching middle age, never been married, and is the postmistress of the town. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader] Reference
After her son, John, was born in 1948, she worked for a time as the postmistress in Fairbank. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Lyn Gardner becomes a rumour-mongering postmistress in a play that uses the audience as its cast. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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