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Definition of Mailbags
1. mailbag [n] - See also: mailbag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mailbags
Literary usage of Mailbags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
"The following two class activities promote this kind of pleasure in writing and
allow for creative expression outside the English classroom: mailbags from ..."
2. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"CHAPTER XVII COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT Lack of adequate means—Postal service—A
small but growing system—Methods of carriage—Unusual uses of mailbags— ..."
3. Through America: Or, Nine Months in the United States by Walter Gore Marshall (1881)
"... no infectious diseases with us, while in the meantime we discharged the mailbags
into a little tiny wooden white-painted steamer which came alongside, ..."
4. The Militant Proletariat by Austin Lewis (1911)
"The ambulant postmen, who have to transfer the mailbags to the trains, refuse to
accept any mailbags from postmen who have not, according to regulations, ..."
5. Old Coaching Days by Stanley Harris (1882)
"Office with the bags and firearms, consisting of a blunderbuss and a brace of
pistols, carried for the protection of the mailbags. He was brought up from ..."
6. Report on Observations on Railways, and Other Subjects: Made During a Tour by Henry C. Mais (1884)
"The mode of picking up and dropping the mailbags at stations where trains do not
stop is illustrated in Picking up and appendix, Plate No. ..."
7. The Mother of All Webs Who Gotcha! by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1992)
"The mailbags were salvaged and returned to India by the Tibetan guerrillas, ...
The contents of the mailbags were later analyzed in detail by the agency's ..."
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