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
La Chauss�e, which we reached at a very smart trot, was the first post town, and is about half way to Vitry.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
We followed the high road to the post town to which I had been conveyed, and I determined to pull up at Mrs McShane’s, for I was so exhausted that I could go no further.
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
He had had a five mile-walk to get it from the post town he had bidden her address to, and opened it with a strange mixture of curiosity and yearning.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
The post town for the Warren was Highcombe, which was about four miles off.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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