Envelopes
['ɛnvə,lop]
Examples
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The first addressographs were intended for printing names and addresses consecutively on envelopes and post cards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We must not conclude this notice of Paper Making Machinery without alluding to the ingenious self-acting mechanisms for making envelopes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The third doctor, who carried the X-ray plates in their red envelopes, said nothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They were in red envelopes and she took them out of the envelopes and held them up to the light and we both looked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When I had done, and had sealed and directed the two envelopes, I went back with the letters to Laura's room, to show her that they were written. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- CAPACITY, 7,500 ADDRESSED ENVELOPES PER HOUR] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The threads in postage envelopes and in bankers' cheques, are introduced by this process of plating two surfaces together. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This machine automatically feeds and addresses public service bills, insurance premium notices and receipts, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One of the inner sheets of paper--the second one, usually--is double, and, when folded, forms two envelopes that are back to back. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The papers had been made up into sealed envelopes, one or two of which had been opened by the police. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed-- Oh ciel! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- SPEED, 5,000 ADDRESSED ENVELOPES AN HOUR] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Upton