expressman
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Son of a former Seattle expressman, he was raised as a Protestant, stood second in his high-school class of 500.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Harry Truman stepped off the Presidential Special in Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat."
From Time Magazine Archive
On Saturday, Nubbins' father had worked in the kitchen, hanging ornaments on the fir branch and answering the side door every time the postman, the delivery boy or the expressman knocked.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a man, it means signing a lease or something of that kind and perhaps hiring an expressman.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an expressman with the largest box Mr. Popper had ever seen.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
When she caught sight of Genevieve's sweet face back of the bored expressmen, she gave a little cry, ran forward, set down her suitcase and clasped her young cousin in her arms.
From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Jordan, Elizabeth Garver
Here expressmen were moving trunks about, a few stragglers waiting for some boat peered through the gates like prisoners; there was a general air of bustle and a "city" atmosphere about the place.
From Tom Slade at Temple Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
The Americans who were then living at Monterey sent several expressmen to their countrymen, warning them of their danger, as they felt that the Mexicans could, without a doubt, completely annihilate them.
From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by Peters, de Witt C.
Owgooste was smacked from hour to hour, and wept upon the front stairs; the dressmaker called over the banisters for a hot flatiron; expressmen tramped up and down the stairway.
From McTeague by Norris, Frank
The expressmen overhauled the exploring party after several days of hard travel and handed to Fremont the communications.
From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by Peters, de Witt C.
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