mail-sack

Why, I'm hungry enough to eat a leather mail-sack.

Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

Up the tree it comes for me, while me pardner slips down, grabs the mail-sack, an 'sails up the west pine again.

The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

On the plea of seeing whether their package had come, both Stratton and Jessup escorted him over to the station platform and did not quit his side until the train had departed, carrying the mail-sack with it.

Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903

Passing into the mail-car, I found the clerk tied to a post, with a mail-sack pulled over his head, and the utmost confusion among the pouches and sorting-compartments, while scattered over the floor were

Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 1902

"The franc-tireurs captured a mail-sack just now," he said.

Lorraine A romance 1899

Tricasse ripped up the mail-sack with his long clasp-knife.

Lorraine A romance 1899

When he descended the stairs once more he found Portlaw, surrounded by the contents of the mail-sack, and in a very bad temper, while Malcourt stood warming his back at the blazing birch-logs, and gazing rather stupidly at a folded telegram in his hands.

The Firing Line 1899

"In that bally mail-sack which Louis brought in from Pride's Fall there's a telegram from your friend, Neville Cardross; and why the devil he wants Louis to come to New York on the jump --"

The Firing Line 1899

The stage from White Lake arrived at noon with the mail, and the driver walked into the post-office and slammed the soaking mail-sack on the floor.

A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories 1899

"Well now, Crabbie, don't bust out and cry into them dried apples jest to swell the price, fer Mis 'Rucker will ketch you sure when she comes to buy 'em for to-morrow's turnovers," came in the long drawl of the poet as he dawdled into the door and flung the rusty mail-sack down on to the counter in front of Mr. Crabtree.

Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898