Then one day, like a bolt from the blue, came an unstamped letter from San Francisco.

Then he took a sheet of the stamped notepaper of Frampton Court, tore it roughly, at the fold, and on the unstamped half inscribed several characters in Chinese, using a pencil with a fat, soft lead for this purpose.

The principal money in this country is gold, unstamped, and issued by weight.

Besides dollars, little bars of pure unstamped silver are used as a circulating medium; small portions, varying in size, being cut off them, according to the sum required.

But a fortnight after came an unstamped letter summoning him to the Ministry, and after a three hours' wait he was shown into Monsieur Bargemont's private room.

It was handed in with the others from the front-door letter-box this morning in an unstamped envelope.

And what of the unwritten, unstamped, unposted letters of just indignation to friends and relations?

Was there anything on the face of the notice to distinguish it from an ordinary unstamped circular? Shareh.

On top of my mail next morning lay a small envelope, unstamped, and addressed to me in a free running hand.