mailboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mailboat
Example Sentences
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Others are blue-collar communities whose lifeblood depends on fishing, farming and the groceries and fuel delivered by a weekly mailboat that is nowhere to be seen.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019
In July 1871 Morris and three companions, one of them the Icelandic scholar Eiríkr Magnússon, travelled by Danish mailboat from Edinburgh's Granton harbour to Reykjavík, a four-day journey.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010
It was towards the end of the afternoon when the skipper of the West-coast mailboat, peering through his glasses, made out two palms that rose apparently straight out of the sea.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
The seas' ruler, he gazed southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail tacking by the Muglins.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
It's getting so desperate that I had thought for a moment, since we can't make our way south, whether I wouldn't try to steer west and make an attempt to reach the mailboat track.
From The Shadow Line; a confession by Conrad, Joseph
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