I had a quaint postcard from Sydney in reply to my last letter.
Your French postcardwas returned to me by the stupid post, so I shall try and send it to you in an envelope, as you want to keep it for a curiosity.
This same child on the same blue-ribboned Steck-Kissen was also represented on another postcard lying on the knees of the Emperor, who was smiling into the middle-distance.
I beg all readers who prefer the first of these proposals to write me a postcard containing the words "I believe the use of accents hinders the universal adoption of Esperanto as an international language.
This Postcard has been specially designed for the B.
Even such apparent trifles as picture postcards, postage stamps, and the like are vastly instructive, and many a volume of enthralling interest might be written about an Esperantist's postcard album.
A few weeks later came a postcard representing "The Group Progress," but, unfortunately, it was a cluster of naked niggers!
Remembering the money I had made with the little verses printed on a postcard at the Brulé Opening, I prepared another on the Rosebud, with the cartoonist from Milwaukee helping me by making drawings to illustrate it.
With the postcard money we bought a drum for the stovepipe, to serve as an oven.
He sent me a lovely picture postcard once--it was to Timmy Tosswill, Esq.
It will cost you only the trouble of a postcard to tell me which you would like, and it shall soon be sent.
Will you be so kind as to send me a postcard telling me in what kind of station it grows.
Ptolemy Jenkinson here handed this torn postcard to the company.
If at the cost of a postcard you could be fitted up as the Lady of the Lake in green draperies and water-lilies, it would no doubt be exceedingly becoming, but it would be no sport.
When, tired and muddy, Darsie reached her study again, it was to find a postcard from Lavender which a kindly Fresher had laid upon her "burry.
A common charge for a picture postcard is a penny; the cost of sending a communication on such a card by post is then three-halfpence, whereas the cost of a letter is only a penny plus the very slight cost of the paper and envelope.
The introduction of the picture postcardgave a great impetus to the use of this means of correspondence.
The difference in cost of service in the case respectively of a light letter and a postcard is negligible.
In none of the five countries are ordinary letters allowed to pass at postcard rate if merely enclosed in open covers.
Consequently, a local postcard was charged the same postage as a letter weighing 250 grammes; similarly the rates for printed matter or samples for local delivery were high when compared with the rate for local letters.
The picture postcard has strengthened the position of the letter rate in another way, viz.
And there was a postcard this morning and what do you think it said?
Terence pushed away his plate and began writing an imaginary postcardwith a spoon.
In vain were the foreigners warned not to come, for one evening in walked a young Dane, who preceded a postcard he had sent announcing his arrival.
A postcard to answer this postscript, however, is desirable, as then it might be possible to get matters in train for next budding season.
Dear Dyer,--Would you mind sending me on a postcard the name of the genus of plants the constituent species of which you alluded to in the train as being mutually fertile, and also separated from one another topographically?
He smiled, slapped the postcard against his lower lip, and watched the departure from Bangkok where the scenery became increasingly green.
They could have sent a postcard to say they'd got it all right," John replied ruefully.
Mary had not meant to read the message written across the picture, but is it ever possible to examine a picture on a postcard without taking in the words at the bottom?
Billie, looking at the postcard over Nancy's shoulder.
He took from his pocket a picturepostcard that had been sent him by a well-meaning American acquaintance from America.
All Germany gloats over his Jovian domesticities; when I was last in Berlin the postcard shops were full of photographs of a sort of procession of himself and his sons, all with long straight noses and sidelong eyes.
I did so want a postcard to send to Fletcher's to order my new piece of music, and when I was out I forgot to get any, though mamma said I might buy a whole packet.
And since the night that mamma watched for the burglars, not a single stamp or postcard or anything has ever been missing.
A Postcard Rack [25] The illustration shows a rack for postcards.
I’ll mail this postcard to Mrs. O’Grady from Salt Lake City.
The lengthy captain looked up from the postcardhe was scribbling.
A rather remarkable case occurred here of a postcard having occupied nearly eight years in travelling between Horfield Barracks and the premises of a firm in Stokes Croft,--a distance of less than two miles.
He examined a postcard from Spinks and a parcel (containing an overcoat) from Rankin, with the novelist's name and address inside the wrapper.
There was a postcardwritten on the twenty-first, inquiring the cause of his non-appearance on the twentieth.
My friend was very eager that I should let him "hear from" me upon my return to the States, and he particularly desired a postcardpicturing a skyscraper.
In acknowledgment of my postcard I received a letter, which I think should not remain in the obscurity of my coat pocket.
In particular, I was supposed to declare in court that he had not written that threatening postcard of September the 7th in Dresden.
Of all these pastimes, Lydia liked best the afghan, and the postcard game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postcard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
