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
Meanwhile their concern and admiration were for the lady destined to this post town of the crowded Tōkaidō, the stopping place of high and low, noble and riff-raff, entering Edo town.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
He then gave his host his address, which was a country-seat near a post town in the south of England, and bid him an affectionate farewell.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 by Various
Then I noticed that there was no mark of the post town of delivery.
From Prester John by Buchan, John
Give us details about Trelawney, and, if possible, the name of the nearest post town.
From This Is the End by Benson, Stella
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