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POSTMAN, Eng. law. A barrister in the court of exchequer, who has precedence in: motions.

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He folded the stamps in with his manuscript, dropped it into the letter-box, and from three weeks to a month afterward the postman came up the steps and handed him the manuscript.

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You lazy old darling, you hate answering letters, don't you?" pursued Magdalen, dropping the postman's character and assuming the daughter's.

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The postman, instead of turning naturally, had ducked and tumbled against the garden fence.

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He took the letter from the postman, and went back into the dining-room.

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Item the second came through the postman. Worthy Mr.

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'Like a general postman's coat --queer coats those--made by contract--no measuring-- mysterious dispensations of Providence--all the short men get long coats--all the long men short ones.' Running on in this way, Mr.

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and what stopped my breath for a moment, when the postman having brought a couple of letters, my mother said, 'Here, Agnes, this is for you,' and threw one of them to me?

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TO almost every house in the land, as regular as the milk man, more regular than the postman, there comes each morning the newspaper boy.

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Man's thumb-mark on corner,-- probably postman. Best quality paper.

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Whilst we were speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman's knock of the telegraph boy.

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But even after the astronomers accounted for the different distances, the galaxies still did not appear equally bright, Lauer and Postman reported in September at a cosmology conference in Milan, Italy.

A river runs through it? Mapping the flow of the universe

There is a daring American genre of apocalyptic futurology that I love, and I took Neil Postman's Technopoly along on a Jumbo flight expecting a treat of intellectual tosh.