How To Use mailboat In A Sentence
- The coming-in of the mailboat was the one large public event of a summer day, and I was disappointed at seeing none of my intimate friends but Johnny Bowden, who had evidently done nothing all winter but grow, so that his short sea-smitten clothes gave him a look of poverty. William's Wedding
- He had come up beside, and he nodded to the plume of the mailboat as it hurried in from a strange direction. At Swim, Two Boys
- All traffic through the Free State was of course interrupted, and to reach Natal involved a railway journey of 700 miles by De Aar Junction and Stormberg to Port Elizabeth, and thence by a small mailboat or tug to Durban—four days in all. MY EARLY LIFE
- Even so, guests can only get over to it when the local mailboat runs from Stonington.
- Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown. — Ulysses
- Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, and the grand resonant mournful horn of the mailboat in reply. At Swim, Two Boys
- In a brief historical overview of the service provided by mailboats, the ministry said it dates back to the 17th century when the vessels transported and delivered mail and small packets from England and America to Crooked Island, the main depot, and from there to other islands.
- Once again, the mailboat receded into the Irish Sea. At Swim, Two Boys
- The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened.
- And he had hoped to avoid all this; or rather to hoard this seeing for one final gulp from the mailboat rail. At Swim, Two Boys
