The telegraph office is closed, and you say the mailboat should sail early to-morrow.
Well, the next time you stop this mailboat just because you're thirsty, we'll heave you over the rail!
The homeward bound mailboat arrived before Rideau the next day, and when she stopped at the first port connected by cable, Maxwell despatched a message to London: "Wire Hyslop to meet me by Malemba.
For the mailboat must have come in last night, and the passengers had either been put ashore last evening, or had been put ashore at sunrise, supposing the boat remained discharging cargo all night.
No, the mailboat had gone on, had weighed anchor early in the morning, at sunrise, they told him, and had continued on her way up the coast.
The afternoon passed in preparation of monthly reports scheduled to go on the mailboat expected in that evening.
The mailboat limped in early in the afternoon, waking the torpid town into semblance of interested activity during the brief duration of its stay.
The little West-coast mailboat was close alongside now, and flags also commenced to flutter up between her masts, while her whistle screamed in long and short blasts.
Austin drew the lanyard, and when the ensign blew out on the hot air Union down, the mailboat stopped, and, considering that they were steamboat men, her crew had a white gig over in a very creditable time.
The mailboat doctors and some of the traders he had met at Las Palmas had more than once related curious examples of the mental aberration which now and then results from malarial fever.
You could find a West-coast mailboat goin' home if you went down the creek in the launch.
In any case, it was clear that he had broken down the last bridge behind him when the mailboat stopped and lay rolling more wildly than ever athwart the long swell.
Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown.
The seas' ruler, he gazed southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail tacking by the Muglins.
One rather amusing fellow was very much of the kind you'd meet at a sporting club, and the other had the stamp of a navy or first-class mailboat man.
He would have no further opportunity for serving his present employers; andmailboat berths are not readily picked up.
He could have stood it had he come fresh from the sailing ships, but he frankly admitted that it was trying to a mailboat officer.
Girls, he understood, often had a partiality for mailboat officers who were generally men of prepossessing appearance and manners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mailboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
