mailboat

How to use mailboat in a sentence

• Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown.

  Ulysses | James Joyce

• The afternoon passed in preparation of monthly reports scheduled to go on the mailboat expected in that evening.

  Terry | Charles Goff Thomson

• I don't expect him until he calls for his man—the one I've just hove out—when the West-coast mailboat comes in.

  For Jacinta | Harold Bindloss

• Wyndham was wanted at home, the ebb tide was running and a mailboat was due to call at Takana lagoon.

  Wyndham's Pal | Harold Bindloss

• What day of the month is this, and have they changed the homeward mailboat's time bill?

  The League of the Leopard | Harold Bindloss