I'm not going to act postman for you, I can assure you!
What a mercy she had intercepted the postman that morning and taken the letters herself!
Mrs. Laing was talking to Billy Thring in the hall when the postman groom came to clear the letter-box.
Please tell Mr. Baumgartner what happened in the hall at Lochmerig when Mrs. Laing asked the postman to give her a letter addressed to Captain Arthur Warden, at Ostend.
An old white-haired postman pastes it upon the bulletin board outside the post office.
That is to say the postman first went to Father Vidalenc's, but by the time the old man had found his spectacles, Madame Lemot had received her missive, and both were practically read at once.
Little Marie was taken on her mother's lap, and I thought of the ecstasy of the brave fellow to whom one day the postman would bring the envelope containing the glorious proofs.
I won't watch for the postman any more if it makes you have bad thoughts about him.
I have been rather disappointed at not hearing this morning," said Lily, "for I thought the postman would have brought me a letter.
On the next morning the postman brought a letter, or rather a note, and Lily at once saw that it was from Crosbie.
John Postman went up to the house this very day, with a newspaper for your mamma.
I shall count the minutes till I get an answer to this, and shall envy the postman who will have your letter before it will reach me.
She had contrived to intercept it near the back door, at which the postman called, so that her mother should not watch her watchings, nor see her disappointment if none should come.
She had put down her pen that she might think of all this--by no means for the first time--and then resumed it with a sudden start as though fearing that the postman might be in the village before her letter was finished.
One day, this Summer, the postman brought me a package of magazines and a letter.
At ten o'clock my creditor came, but half an hour before him the postman had put into my hand a letter containing a check for fifty dollars, the exact amount I needed.
If you ask, "What right has a country postman to be handling questions that vexed the brain of Plato?
In a short account of Mr. Hosken, the postman poet, written by way of preface to his Verses by the Way (Methuen & Co.
There was a laugh at the other end; then the postman answered: "This ain't the police?
Can you give me the address of Postman Jackson, attached to that station?
III The next morning the postman brought a letter.
He is the postman of the village and the surrounding country, a handsome young fellow who carries the mail around on horseback, and who between times makes shoes.
And the postman brought nothing interesting, except a letter, post-mark Denver, Col.
And through that week the watching for the postmanwent on--went on.
A bundle of letters and papers, brought by the postman that evening, were beside him.
The postman had not delivered it on his rounds, because the address was not correct.
I regard thepostman as a faithful and indispensable assistant.
She greets the postman with a smile, and blushes as she glances at the familiar handwriting.
And it is because the postman spends his whole life among just such sacramental things that we welcome and honour him.
Others may not feel as I do, but I confess that I bless the postman every day of my life.
I greet the postman with a smile, and try to make him feel that he has rendered me an appreciable service, as indeed he has.
If the postman passes my door, I heave a sigh of relief that I have no letters to answer; it is almost as good as being granted a half-holiday.
And, contrariwise, if the sight of the postman coming up the path affords me gratification, the spectacle of his passing my gate ought to fill me with disappointment.
Now see how much better the postman manages the matter.
As soon as the postman has closed the gate after him, she hurries down to the summer-house, her favourite retreat, to read her letter.
I bless the postman because he can do for me, and do better than I could do, so many delicate things.
In such matters--and they are among the most important matters with which a minister is called to deal--the postman is able to render me invaluable assistance.
Am I therefore to be angry when the postman enters the gate, and accept his letters with a grunt?
Every day when the postman arrives I believe he looks for a letter from her, and he shows that he feels it when he finds none.
Oh, that village postman is quite a philosopher, I assure you!
And even the postman knew that he 'wasn't well enough off for himself'!
Yes, here was the lane, or street rather, of which the postman had told her, leading out of the old market square.
The postman looked so pleased just now when I asked him about Colonel John Carmichael!
You shall have my letter before the postman comes, so that you may send it with your own.
But when the postman wound his horn at the bottom of the village, and the Parson hurried down from the churchyard to meet him, at the expense of eightpence he received the following dry epistle.
But you know what Walker the Postman is, when anything of interest is moving.
When Mrs. Bell came back, she opened the package the postman had given her, and she never had a chance to miss anything after that.
When the postman came she gave him the letter for Alice, and he gave her the box.
Now the missing carrier and postman had no open enemies.
The postman comes twice to our doors during the day with letters--once for those from the neighbourhood of Breckonside, once for the mails that come in from London and all the countries of the world.
Indeed, the postman had brought me an official blue paper that morning, by virtue of which I was informed of my registration as a regular certificated teacher under the Act of 1871.
Our letter is not for the town at which the bag is opened, but for one of its outlying villages; and the ruralpostman must be called in before the transaction, commenced in London some ten or twelve hours previously, can be completed.
Within our recollection, an aged man who acted as postman in a country town in the south of Scotland, habitually carried a piece of rowan-tree or mountain-ash in his pocket, as a fancied protection against malevolent influences.
The milkman and the postman stop me in the street, the little fruiterer round the corner and the young ladies at the Temple of Pomona in the Strand detain me in giving me my change as if I were an accessory to the crime.
Next day, while Rudolph Musgrave was making out the list of honorary pall-bearers, the postman brought a letter which had been forwarded from Chicago.
Only the old, old message, so often told that it seems scarcely worth while to bother the postman about it.
It was ten minutes after the postman had been that we heard a flurried tap on the drawing-room door, and Million positively burst into the room.
There's the postman here--very inclined to be friendly--not to mention the policeman.
She moped about the house, restless and excited, unwilling to do anything that would take her away from the house when the postman arrived, reading the steamship news in every morning's paper.
You know that the postman went with this letter to Kingsdown Crescent?
I'll answer the gate-bell this morning; and we'll see if I can't bring you a letter when the postman comes.
When the postman does come," she said, "see him yourself.
Thursday came, and brought the fatal postman with more news from Norfolk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
