He will send us a telegram from Port Natal when he and Hradsky are safely on the mailboat. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown. —. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The afternoon passed in preparation of monthly reports scheduled to go on the mailboat expected in that evening. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Old Klaas came to Cape Town with us, and as we saw John waving to us from the fast receding mailboat the Hottentot said something I never forgot. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
The mailboat limped in early in the afternoon, waking the torpid town into semblance of interested activity during the brief duration of its stay. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The Bayne Liner was no mailboat; I expected that my letters had been awaiting me for some time at the port; and the money could have been cabled nearly a month before this date. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Well, he's going off by the mailboat, says Joe, tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
From there a small mailboat schooner brought them to Corpus Christi. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference
Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
We have related how Murat had met one of his former Mamelukes, a man called Othello, on board the Bastia mailboat. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
No, the mailboat had gone on, had weighed anchor early in the morning, at sunrise, they told him, and had continued on her way up the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference
Special note must be made of the driver of the mailboat (also a Jason) who was a very pleasant chap and very knowledgeable about the area and NZ in general. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The seas 'ruler, he gazed southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail tacking by the Muglins. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
For the mailboat must have come in last night, and the passengers had either been put ashore last evening, or had been put ashore at sunrise, supposing the boat remained discharging cargo all night. From Wordnik.com. [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference
When the mailboat arrived one afternoon, the Bishop's rickshaw stood at the jetty, while the Bishop himself, in his immaculate gaiters, with his sash blowing in the soft wind, stood at the end of the jetty anxiously regarding the tender making its way inshore. From Wordnik.com. [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference
Nothing happens quickly in stately Dún Laoghaire, so it came as a surprise when this week the Harbour Board did what it said it would do in July, and started pulling down the 1960s sheds on Carlisle Pier, where millions of emigrants said goodbye to Ireland as they passed through the old mailboat terminal. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Architecture News] Reference
Well, he’s going off by the mailboat, says Joe, tonight. —. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The seas’ ruler, he gazed southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail tacking by the Muglins. —. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
"It's getting so desperate that I had thought for a moment, since we can't make our way south, whether I wouldn't try to steer west and make an attempt to reach the mailboat track. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference
488 mailboat mail boat. From Wordnik.com. [The Five Orange Pips] Reference
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