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We came down on the train from Dublin and arrived yesterday morning after a bad night on the mail-boat.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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We came down on the train from Dublin and arrived yesterday morning after a bad night on the mail-boat.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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We came down on the train from Dublin and arrived yesterday morning after a bad night on the mail-boat.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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An investigation into the state-rooms, and the recital of disappointed expectations consequent on the discovery of their very small dimensions, the rescue of “regulation” portmanteaus from sailors who were running off with them, and the indulgence of that errant curiosity which glances at everything and rests on nothing, occupied the time before the arrival of the mail-boat with about two tons of letters and newspapers, which were consigned to the mail-room with incredible rapidity.
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Offered to start for Bastia by mail-boat in the morning.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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He apparently had financial troubles and suffered creeping paralysis, which may have been why he committed suicide during a mail-boat crossing by jumping into the Irish Sea.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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All there had an instinctive love for their country or their neighbourhood, the mail-boat had not yet drawn the thoughts of the wealthy classes elsewhere.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He apparently had financial troubles and suffered creeping paralysis, which may have been why he committed suicide during a mail-boat crossing by jumping into the Irish Sea.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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All there had an instinctive love for their country or their neighbourhood, the mail-boat had not yet drawn the thoughts of the wealthy classes elsewhere.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The Danish steamboat is about the size of the Dublin-Holyhead mail-boat, but the cabins are panelled in pale birchwood, and when we sit down to supper, the table is covered by an astonishing variety of cold food, most of which we refuse because we do not recognize it, and some, such as eels in jelly, because we do.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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