expressman
Americannoun
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expressmen
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Origin of expressman
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The three grocers, steamfitter, repair man, auto salesman, two clerks, merchant, expressman, broker and railroad agent who sat in judgment on Oilman Sinclair stayed out of the courtroom less than two hours.
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
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
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
It was an expressman with the largest box Mr. Popper had ever seen.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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 Frank Norris
She had refused to receive a dead cat, and the expressmen had taken the box away again.
From Mike Flannery On Duty and Off by Ellis Parker Butler
I have patients with this complaint who are letter carriers, expressmen, even stevedores, and the like.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
She had her opinion of expressmen, express companies, and especially of the firm of Hibbert & Jones.
From Mike Flannery On Duty and Off by Ellis Parker Butler
"I wish I never had to see them again," I said viciously under my breath as the expressmen carried out the last trunk.
From The Golden Bird by Edward L. Chase
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