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  • He folded them just so, put the proper stamps inside the long envelope along with the manuscript, sealed the envelope, put more stamps outside, and dropped it into the mail-box.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Well, just how many people do you run into between the keyboard and the mail-box?

    Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism 2010

  • Looking over at the empty open mail-box, he realized that this was the first time since the beginning of the summer that he was not afraid of it.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • I wasn't riding at the time, nor wearing spandex, but I was checking my mail-box.

    Prize Fighting: Knuckle Down to Win BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • The stores provide packing, shipping and private mail-box service.

    UPS to Sell An International Unit 2009

  • Here Lockhard entered, and put the leathern scrutoire, or mail-box, into his hands.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Lucky the goat did not live out by the mail-box, so I can't answer that.

    An anthropological puzzle StyleyGeek 2008

  • Yet, as I strode earnestly to the mail-box earlier, I found it very nearly impossible to not notice the dramatic effect the chill had on my mood.

    drag me through the slime and the mud.. impetuousme 2005

  • He listened to the notices of mail-box universities which taught

    Babbit 2004

  • And then, glancing at the name on the mail-box which stood at the junction and evidently belonged to the extremely dilapidated old farm-house on the rise above, he was not a little astonished to note that the name was that of

    An American Tragedy 2004

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