Which preposition to use with mails
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One day in March a warm south-wind "quieted the earth" after a long rain, the river began to stir, its mail of ice to crack and heave under the sun's rays.
" But even as the doctor spoke, there came a sudden clatter of horses' hoofs and a jingle of iron mail in the courtyard below.
He had made a contract early in the winter to go to Dawson and bring down the mail for Minóok.
"That won a suit of triple mail at Dunismere joust, and wagered it 'gainst Black Ivo's roan stallion within Deepwold forest upon a time.
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See you the little man yonder, in half-mail with sword as great as himselfhe that pipeth shrill-voiced as a boy?
Returning the knight a tremendous cuff, it seized his coat of mail between breast and shoulder, and tore away a great strip of it down to the girdle, leaving the skin bare.
" "Not so, messire," sighed the rueful knight, "for when I chance to meet a gentle youth, young and well beseenas thou, bedight in goodly mail as thou, with knightly sword on thigh, why then, messire, 'tis ever my wont to declare unto him that she I honour is fairer, nobler, and altogether more worthy and virtuous than any other she soever, and to maintain that same against him, on horse or afoot, with lance, battle-axe or sword.
Our postmaster thought he was not allowed to send the mails by such a conveyance.
In the night of September 14, 1485, one of the inquisitors, Pedro Arbues, covered as usual with a coat of mail under his robes, and wearing a steel skull-cap under his hatfor he was every moment conscious of guilt and apprehensive of retributiontook a lantern in one hand and a bludgeon in the other; and, like a sturdy soldier of his peculiar Church, walked from his house to the cathedral of that same Saragossa, to join in matins.
Two were fired at but the balls glanced off their tough coats of mail without hurting or scarcely frightening them.
'Twas a malamute first scaled the Chilkoot At the time of the great Klondike charge; 'Twas a malamute first saw Lake Bennett And left his footprints at La Barge; They hauled the first mail into Dawson, That Land of the Old Timer's dream, And when Wada first drove in from Fairbanks He was driving a malamute team.
Bridle and mail across his shoulders hung.
"Don't you remember what you read in the Daily Mail about the robbery at your offices in Victoria Street?
If you don't get a letter next mail after this it will mean either that we are entirely out of the reach of post offices, or that a tiger has eaten the dâk-runner.
I had rather hide this sconce of mine in a hood of mail than in the mitre of a lord bishopnolo episcopare, good brother!
Formerly he had carried the mail through the desert, a fine rider and brave man, but sharab had loosened the thigh in the saddle and palsied hand and eye.
The transportation of the mail within five years past has been greatly extended, and the expenditures of the Department proportionably increased.
Mike, when masters waxed sarcastic toward him, always assumed an air of stolid stupidity, which was as a suit of mail against satire.
The object is the transportation of the mail throughout the United States, which may be done on horseback, and was so done until lately, since the establishment of stages.
Some of these questions may be sent in by mail during the week, but the greater part of them are handed to the pastor by the ushers.
Then Robin saw, what he had not wotted of before, that the Friar had also a coat of chain mail beneath his gown.
Don Gil was not a man to live long in the pleasant little Provençal court; like a good archbishop of Toledo, he wore the coat-of-mail underneath his tunic, and as there were no Moors to fight he wished to strike at heretics instead.