mailboat

The coming-in of the mailboat was the one large public event of a summer day, and I was disappointed at seeing none of my intimate friends but Johnny Bowden, who had evidently done nothing all winter but grow, so that his short sea-smitten clothes gave him a look of poverty.

William's Wedding 1910

Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown. —

Ulysses 2003

All traffic through the Free State was of course interrupted, and to reach Natal involved a railway journey of 700 miles by De Aar Junction and Stormberg to Port Elizabeth, and thence by a small mailboat or tug to Durban—four days in all.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

All traffic through the Free State was of course interrupted, and to reach Natal involved a railway journey of 700 miles by De Aar Junction and Stormberg to Port Elizabeth, and thence by a small mailboat or tug to Durban—four days in all.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

All traffic through the Free State was of course interrupted, and to reach Natal involved a railway journey of 700 miles by De Aar Junction and Stormberg to Port Elizabeth, and thence by a small mailboat or tug to Durban—four days in all.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

He had come up beside, and he nodded to the plume of the mailboat as it hurried in from a strange direction.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, and the grand resonant mournful horn of the mailboat in reply.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

He got up and Jim followed to the Peak Rock, a granite outcrop where they could watch the mailboat inch its way.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

And he had hoped to avoid all this; or rather to hoard this seeing for one final gulp from the mailboat rail.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Once again, the mailboat receded into the Irish Sea.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002