postage-stamps

And so then the preparations were made for the two weddings, and there were hampers, and potted things, and sweet things, and nuts, and postage-stamps, and all manner of things.

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 2007

After all, it was not found necessary to have an office competing with another office, trying to send out pinker postage-stamps or more picturesque postmen.

G.K. Speaks - The Transformation of Socialism 2007

And so then the preparations were made for the two weddings, and there were hampers, and potted things, and sweet things, and nuts, and postage-stamps, and all manner of things.

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 2007

An envelope, a penny bottle of ink, a pencil, a spool of thread, cost 10 cents each; postage-stamps cost 2 cents each for inter-island postage, but one must buy five of them, and dimes slip away quickly and imperceptibly.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

But he had never spoken with hope, and had almost ridiculed Bagwax with his postage-stamps and postmarks.

John Caldigate 2004

There were no postage-stamps or registered letters.

The Financier 2004

I am as well aware of the meaning of those letters as though I had made postage-stamps my own peculiar duty.

John Caldigate 2004

He quite understood the argument as to the postage-stamps, — which went further with him than the other arguments.

John Caldigate 2004

There will be cab hire, and postage-stamps — admissions to public amusements, if she is inclined that way — shillings for pew-openers, if she is serious, and takes our people into churches to hear popular preachers, and so on.

Armadale 2003

Frogs the size of postage-stamps leaped panic-stricken for the water when Val's shadow fell across its rim.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958