Miss Hoyle had begged them to buy a few yards of anything with which she might trim a large shady rush hat she had brought with her, so the girls asked the postmistress to show them some white ribbon.
To think of me being postmistress all these years, and making such a mistake!
Already Sister has made peace with the postmistress by the gift of a crude little willow basket of her own weaving, filled with wildflowers.
They had dropped a live garter snake, a good-sized one, through the slit of the package box, and the postmistress had picked it up with a bundle of newspapers.
There was a slightly acid edge to Uncle Bill's tone as he observed: "I ought to git my Try-bune to-night if the postmistress at Beaver Crick is done with it.
Pen and ink, please," replied Maryllia; whereat the old postmistress breathed a sigh of relief.
The postmistress handed him back through the grill his card with a letter.
While the postmistress searched a pigeonhole he gazed at the recruiting poster with soldiers of all arms on parade: and held the tip of his baton against his nostrils, smelling freshprinted rag paper.
Will the Postmistress tell a few boys and girls who have started a club, which meets every Friday evening, something nice to do?
Now each frail flower had laid its slender length along the earth, and the little postmistress watched them wistfully from her rain-stained window.
There was no signature to the message, but a signature was not necessary to tell the postmistress who had written the letter.
The postmistress sat alone in her office and looked out into her garden.
But she did not think of that; never, since she had been postmistress in Nauvoo, had she spoken one word to James Helm, nor had he ever spoken to her.
On the half-envelope lay an object apparently so peculiarly terrifying that the little postmistress caught her breath and turned quite white at sight of it.
The second time was when she signed her application for the position of postmistress of the village.
That's why she didn't think she was going to be postmistress long.
Left to herself she would have remained credulous to the end; but Kezia declared Mr. George was not spending his days letter writing; while Bessie stated the postmistress had told her Mr. George had bought no stamps lately.
Then her note changed, for the postmistress appeared from behind the rhododendrons.
Six photographs were therefore taken exclusively for this volume, by the son of the postmistress who was an expert with the camera; and reproduced by the usual special process upon a particularly valuable kind of Oriental paper.
I am almost sure that he can not know it," the good postmistress answered, "or he would have found means to put an end to you.
In this anxiety for news I begged that my letters might be forwarded under cover to the postmistress at Shoxford, and bearing my initials.
It is all of a piece with the villains that owned it," the postmistress exclaimed at last.
Postmistress has become much interested in the host of young people to whom Chautauqua is a dear and honored name.
Some may feel dissatisfied with their present positions, and anxious to prepare for wider usefulness; see what the Postmistressthinks of the situation.
The poor creatures," said the postmistress gently, "how can one be always refusin' them!
I questioned the postmistress about this, and she smiled.
He bought the office of clerk to the justice of peace in Nemours, January, 1815, and lived at first with his family in the good graces of Doctor Minoret, through whom his sister became postmistress at Nemours.
Another foreign mail is in and the village postmistress has sent an impassioned request that I steam off the stamps for her boy's album, enriched during my residence here by specimens from eleven different countries.
You will be postmistress at the Fairy Cross then, Egeria, and we'll visit each other.
Then the postmistress came to the window with the required information.
He remembered with displeasure now the assumption of the postmistress that he would be glad to carry this parcel.
It was a small, rough place; a wooden partition shut off the public from the postmistress and her helpers.
It was the prettiest bit of country that we had yet found in our search for our ideal farm, and the answer of the postmistress caused us keen disappointment.
The postmistress gazed at her with an expression of incredulous pity.
Paul and I straggled along behind, scarcely able to keep up with Marion's eager pace, as she breathlessly commented upon the delights of living in such a house as the postmistress had described.
He was one of the few persons in the community who looked upon the despatch of his letters by the postmistress as his right, and not a favour on her part; there was a long-standing feud between them accordingly.
It reflects on the postmistress somewhat that she had generally found them out by next day, when, if in a specially vixenish mood, she did not hesitate to upbraid them for their perfidy.
If he found the postmistress in an amiable mood, which was only now and then, the caller led up craftily to the object of his visit.
Perhaps thepostmistress was belled; but if she did not "steam" the letters and confide their titbits to favoured friends of her own sex, it is difficult to see how all the gossip got out.
I always say if I hadn't been postmistress no one would have expected to see my husband have a fringed cloth hang on a pillar over his dead body, and if I hadn't been postmistress I never could have paid for such a thing.
The only man who has any legal right to sit around me is in heaven, and just because I'm the postmistress is no reason why I should take chances.
But if you weren't postmistress what would you think?
Ask Jack if they pay their board regularly; that'll help you to know some," propounded the postmistress solemnly, and then she returned to her government duties forthwith.
When you are reading, and you find something which you fancy the Postmistress would like to see, take the trouble to copy it for her.
Will the Postmistress please tell me why unmarried ladies are sometimes called spinsters?
Whoever shall take a part in contributing to the budget of the Postmistress may write C.
As they entered the telegraph-office Andrew was just leaving, and the postmistress was wishing him a respectful farewell.
It further announced that answers should be sent under cover to the postmistress of Lancaster, the reason given being that they would thus escape postage.
Bennett, the man to whom the postmistress of Croydon was engaged, had been known to her for some time, and she bore testimony to his qualifications for the post to which he aspired.
Mrs. Wainwright, the old postmistress of Ferrybridge, had sent up for allowance a number of unstamped letters without shewing whence she had received them.
Brazilians;" and with this he moved off, leaving the postmistress in a flurry of shame and confusion as to what precise character of transaction his counsel applied.
In my immediate neighborhood, a postmistress has been so faithful an officer for seven years, that when there was a rumor of her removal, it was a matter of public concern.
A woman makes as good a postmistress as a man does a postmaster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postmistress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
