Mails
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Examples
- Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She could have made an inquiry or two, as to the expedition and the expense of the Irish mails;it was at her tongue's endbut she abstained. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The quadruple press of 1887 turned out eight-page papers at a running speed of 18,000 per hour, these being cut, pasted and folded ready for the carrier or the mails. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The only wonder is, that people ain't killed oftener by them Mails. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Was it not he of St Ives whom they tied to an oak-tree, and compelled to sing a mass while they were rifling his mails and his wallets? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They come a racing out of Lad Lane and Wood Street at twelve or fourteen mile a hour, them Mails do. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They ought to be prosecuted and fined, them Mails. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Reproductions from the copying pad are now admitted in the mails as third-class matter, i. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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