unmailed

Three hundred letters, clicked out on the busy typewriters (appeals for assistance, for sanctions from the organized labor groups, requests for square news deals to the editors of newspapers, protests against the high-handed treatment of revolutionists by the United States courts), lay unmailed, awaiting postage.

The Mexican 2010

In the post office at San Blas, an unmailed postcard is tacked to the wall.

Going South - Mexico Of The 1980's 2004

In the post office at San Blas, an unmailed postcard is tacked to the wall.

Going South - Mexico Of The 1980's 2004

He wrote a savage letter to Jones that went unmailed, and fulminated to Goodman that the man was “a penny-worshipping humbug & shuffler.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

A small gold crucifix on a chain; a couple of unmailed letters on flowery stationery, addressed to a PO box in Cranfills Gap, Texas; a pink baby rattle, broken and crusted with age; a key chain from a car dealership in Wheeling, West Virginia.

The Mesa Conspiracy David Kent 2005

He wrote a savage letter to Jones that went unmailed, and fulminated to Goodman that the man was “a penny-worshipping humbug & shuffler.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Clemens seldom answered an unwarranted letter; but at one time he began a series of unmailed answers — that is to say, answers in which he had let himself go merely to relieve his feelings and to restore his spiritual balance.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

On my desk sit a dozen other letters, folded, sealed, addressed, stamped…and unmailed.

A Burning in Homeland Richard Yancey 2003

She put the packet of unmailed letters down and folded her hands in her lap again and smiled at me, and for a moment her eyes sparkled, and I caught the faintest peek of the old Miss Mavis, more sparkly and alive than most people are, and all of a sudden there seemed to be less air in the room and I was working hard just to breathe.

A Burning in Homeland Richard Yancey 2003

The unmailed answers that were to accompany this introduction were plentiful enough and generally of a fervent sort.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003