postage stamps
- plural of postage stamp.
Example Sentences
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The genus dupe is cosmopolitan, and the Transatlantic Arcadian would be just as ready with his postage-stamps as the confiding denizen of Bermondsey or Camden Town.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
The making of new issues of postage-stamps primarily to sell to collectors has not been stopped.
From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various
By chance we found some postage-stamps of ten centimes at the bottom of a chest.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
I had to pass through years of rejection, but still I wrote on, and still I spent all my pocket-money on books, and postage-stamps, and paper.
A gentleman who has just arrived from the South to purchase some postage-stamps, states that the rebel army is in an awful condition, and will starve to death as soon as Beauregard gives the order.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
