post town
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Lujan Grisham cordoned off for 10 days the trading post town of Gallup, where infections raced through a detox center, retirement homes and the staff at Rehoboth McKinley Hospital.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
It was already dark, and the driver said they had yet ten miles to ride in order to reach the nearest post town.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie
"Confound you—you must know!—the posting village, you know—that is, not the post town, if you know what a post town is."
From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel
It is pleasing to look back to the time, little more than one hundred years ago, when Bristol was the premier provincial post town.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles
Official inquiry was made; but as it was not known who sent the message, or to what address, or from what post town, or even the wording of the message, official information was not forthcoming.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
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