344 examples of postman in sentences

Billy always took the letters from the postman, and carried the morning paper up to Mr. Morris's study, and I always put away the clean clothes.

"Guess I know," said Martha, laughing; "yer watchin' for the postman to bring yer a valentine.

Just then the postman crossed the street, and ring, ring, went the Home bell.

We were just beginning to get nervous when the postman brought the following letter: "London.

His game-keeper was waiting at the boathouse, but the postman had brought some letters that made him put off his sport.

"But here is the postman.

I know, too, that at least once each month she received a letter; I used to watch for the postman, get the letter, and run to her with it; whether she was busy or not, she would take it and instantly thrust it into her bosom.

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A week later the postman brought us father's first letter.

Every week for many weeks the postman brought us letters from father.

By nine o'clock everybody was yawning, and if the village blacksmith, the postman, and the bell-ringer had not left by that time, they were in an unusually dissipated frame of mind.

In such reverie and such consideration he lay immersed, oblivious of the present moment, and did not stir from his chair until the postman shook the frail walls with a violent double knock.

To the Great Dining Out Majority The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out leaflets to its members urging them to "tell every man you meet, your tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as your dinner partner, that you are opposed to woman suffrage.

20.CHINESE POSTMAN.]

He will be able to depict the dangers a postman passes through in discharging his duty on the field, he will sing the praises of those who are injured in a railroad disaster, and yet continue their good work.

26.SOLDIER POSTMAN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.]

The vegetable; or, From president to postman.

Why the postman has to ring twice; or, Yellow envelope, etc.

CAIN, JAMES M. The postman always rings twice.

Here comes the postman.

PARK, RODERIC B. Here comes the postman.

When she heard the postman's knock she was not even curious; so few letters came to her, she thought this must be Maggy Ann's monthly one from Aberdeen, and went on placidly dusting.

In reality, except that we are the hated English, it makes very little difference to the Bosch, for the innkeeper here says that orders concerning the taking off of hats to all and sundry became so stringent in 1918 that the local postman was constantly interrupted in his duties to answer the salutes of people who wished to be on the safe side.

The roads were perfect; the large, fine-looking coachman, with his white gloves and reins, his rosy face and lofty bearing and the postman in red, blowing his horn as we passed through every village, made the drive seem like a journey in fairyland.

The first mention of corner cupboards appears to have been made in an advertisement of a Dutch joiner in "The Postman" of March 8th, 1711; these cupboards, with their carved pediments being part of the modern fittings of a room in the time of Queen Anne.

344 examples of  postman  in sentences