How To Use Postmistress In A Sentence
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This is simply down to the resignation of the postmistresses.
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The postmistress said it was the spirits of the unburied dead up there on the site bringing bad luck.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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When the couple died, Kathleen, who was living in nearby Danford, moved into the building in High Street and became sub-postmistress.
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They wrapped it in brown paper, addressed it to ‘Hitler, The Palace, Germany’, and took it to the post office, where the postmistress solemnly undertook to see it was delivered.
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She said that even though she did not fit the normal age profile of a rural sub-postmistress, most customers have not commented on it.
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The female postmistress at the post-office is still recovering from the shock of the incident which occurred around 8.20 am on Thursday.
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I've done all three without missing a beat and thank the postmistress and the five girls who run more of a bank than a post office.
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The postmistress at the sub-post office was emphatic that small packages to Europe no longer required green customs slips.
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The UK's longest-serving sub-postmistress will stamp her last parcel this month after a career spanning seven decades.
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She loosens up when she makes friends with the village eccentric, Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert) – a chippy postmistress with a grudge against the family.
La Cérémonie: No 16
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A sub-postmistress has won a year-long battle to be paid the minimum wage by the Post Office in a decision set to cost millions.
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Will postmasters and postmistresses who see their profitability falling risk borrowing more money - if they even can - to expand the goods and services available in their post offices?
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For years now, postmasters and postmistresses have been sorting post, something that we were never meant to be doing.
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Gwen Cox has been sub-postmistress at the Vulcans Lane post office in Workington for four years.
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Unfortunately, there have been an awful lot of books about World War II, and The Postmistress, while intelligent and well meaning, doesn’t ultimately have much new to add ... the dialogue lacks snap ... and [Blake] engages in expository overload that’s really not needed for such a well-known tale.
The Postmistress: Summary and book reviews of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
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In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
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France grew up on a farm much like the one she describes, and paints a picture of bucolic pastures concealing a stagnant community of unresolved resentments where the same pieces of bric-a-brac circulate the jumble sales and the postmistress runs a secret information network to rival that of any South American dictator.
Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
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The teacher's mother is the sub-postmistress at the tiny post office on the corner of a terraced street.
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She stepped into the breach as postmistress when the village post office closed after the former sub-postmistress moved abroad.
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The building society, in order to cancel my cheque, requested an accompanying letter from the post office stating the reason for non-acceptance but the postmistress refused to give me one!
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Audrey Dixon has been sub-postmistress of the branch she set up in the garage of her home in Camerton for 31 years, which is also set to close.
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On August 31, 2001, Kitty stamped her last letter as postmistress of the local post office.
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For years now, postmasters and postmistresses have been sorting post, something that we were never meant to be doing.
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A sub-postmistress has revealed she is also operating from a wooden shed - measuring just 8ft by 6ft.
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Rural post offices will be hit hard when direct benefit payments are introduced, the postmistress in Pool-in-Wharfedale fears.
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Rural postmasters and postmistresses are to be given a share of £66m to encourage them not to close thousands of offices that are vital to elderly and isolated people.
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A lot of postmasters and postmistresses are living in fear due to the recent spate of robberies.
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Mary became a postmistress, Chrys was in service in Glasgow and Daisy looked after her parents.
Family life
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The sub-postmistress and her family, it appeared, did not retire to rest until very near midnight, and it is supposed that they were in their first heavy sleep, but it is a mystery why the dog, a sharp fox terrier, remained quiet.
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
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A sub-postmistress has won a year-long battle to be paid the minimum wage by the Post Office in a decision set to cost millions.
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When he turns up dead outside Conway Castle, the postmistress is the suspect and Penny is called into action.
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Mum went back to the post office and asked the postmistress, who obviously knew my mother, andwho said, "I am ever so sorry, Mrs Farr, but there is nothing for you.
Remembrance Day: 'I'm an old man, I am supposed to be tough. I thought I was hard, but I'm not. He's my dad and I miss him'
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It continued to house the village school until 1933, when children were taught by the postmistress who lived next door.
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After to the Roadhouse, and particularly for those who didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t drink, the postmistress was the next best contact point for the Park.
A Grave Denied
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No, not even the postmistress … Especially when she is on her bicycle" – that kind of thing.
Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
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At the post office, Mrs Clarkson, the postmistress, told her: `There's a telegram come for Reeves.
THE GOLDEN LION
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In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
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Many sub postmasters and postmistresses have pulled out because the recent changes to the payment of welfare benefits have hacked away at their profit margins.
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The report suggests a buy-out scheme for postmasters and postmistresses who would then have the option of becoming agents.
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The postmistress called for security firms to be made responsible for safe keys to try and stem the rising tide of robberies.
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Likewise past postmistresses were also remembered with affection.
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A spokesman for Suffolk Police said: ‘The men demanded money from the postmistress while threatening her with what appeared to be a shotgun, a baseball bat and a crowbar.’
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On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, a small town on Cape Cod, does the unthinkable: She doesn't deliver a letter.
The Postmistress: Summary and book reviews of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
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Julia served as postmistress at the old post office in Binghamstown for all of her working life, until her retirement some years ago.
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Even Cousin Kate, the postmistress, looked pretty good by firelight.
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In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
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A village sub-postmistress has spoken of her relief after computer problems which saw her business forced out of service over Christmas were solved.
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According to a local postmistress, businesses have been forced out of the area and a siege mentality, where shop owners live with the daily threat of violence, prevails.
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They'd met on the ferry, said Maisie, and this was later confirmed by the postmistress.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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I particularly enjoyed my encounter with the lighthouse's grumpy postmistress.
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But now he no longer came, and Judith, for all her deliberate flow of spirits, did not quite convince the watchful eyes of Leander’s lady — the postmistress was a trifle too cheerful.
Judith of the Plains
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Show us a gun, and we picture a muscular ne'er-do-well in a balaclava menacing an elderly sub-postmistress.
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The 82-year-old took over as sub-postmistress in 1960 and is now celebrating 50 years running what has become a lifeline for elderly people in the village near Wolverhampton.
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A lot of postmasters and postmistresses are living in fear due to the recent spate of robberies.
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Kathleen has a real connection with the community in Claverley which is why she has been such a successful sub-postmistress for all these years.
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Honley Post Office sub-postmistress Brenda Bodenham welcomed the 20mph zone.
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It will be a sad day for a Guiseley postmistress when her business closes in a month due to Post Office cutbacks.
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I am actually dating the postmistress from Chipping Campden, but I'm not so sure it's a good idea.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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Will postmasters and postmistresses who see their profitability falling risk borrowing more money - if they even can - to expand the goods and services available in their post offices?
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In September 2003, Monica retired as the postmistress of Bangor, bringing an end to the 124-year connection between her family and the postal service in the community.
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A sub-postmistress offered to lend customers her own money after the loss of the shop's internet connection left her unable to pay pensions or benefits.
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The sub-postmistress of Oxford Road post office, who did not want her name printed, said she was overwhelmed by the response from her customers.
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The sub-postmistress is manning the service which still provides a busy and active hub for the cummunity all these years later.
