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Definition of Postbags
1. postbag [n] - See also: postbag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postbags
Literary usage of Postbags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-of-war at Ceylon by Jan N. Brink (1904)
"... up the postbags. It got eleven o'clock and even half past eleven, before a
rolling sound made me aware of the fact that the cart was at last returning. ..."
2. Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-of-war at Ceylon by Jan N. Brink (1904)
"Indeed, the cart was packed from bottom to top with boxes, cases, postbags,
etc., and there was only room for one person, who would have to sit at the back ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"One day a thousand copies of a scurrilous pamphlet went out by the postbags.
On another day, when the shopkeepers rose early to ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"Letters were mostly sent by hand, and after mails were established the postbags
were often empty. Sir Walter Scott knew a man who remembered the London ..."
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