"Postal order" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as a loaf round here. I was afraid you would notice how greedy I was at tea." Then, as he flushed awkwardly and began to speak, she stopped him with a little gesture. "Why should you have thought of it? You were very good, as it was. And I'm all right now. I got a postal order last night," she added rather hurriedly; then she changed the subject abruptly, and went on to talk of one or two matters of passing interest, which the papers had been booming for want of anything of real importance. ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt
... too much anxiety had shattered him; he was joining the unemployable. When his brother, the lay-reader, did not reply to a letter, he wrote again, saying that he and Jacky would come down to his village on foot. He did not intend this as blackmail. Still, the brother sent a postal order, and it became part of the system. And so passed his winter and ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... railway station in a hand-cart, and her old mother helped her to understand my French. They were rather cross about it, and one day, with the assistance of a child in arms, they defeated me in an attempt I made to get a postal order. I dare say they thought it quite a triumph; but it was not so very much to be proud of. At that period my French, always spoken with the Venetian accent of the friend with whom I had studied it many years before, was taking on strange and wilful characteristics, ...
— A Little Swiss Sojourn • W. D. Howells
... (foreign) | eksterlanda | eks-terlahn'da newspaper wrapper | banderolo | bahn-dero'lo parcel | paketo | pahkeh'toh — post | paketposxto | pahkeht-posh'toh pillar-box | leterkesto | letehr-kest'o post, the | la posxto | la pohsh-toh postage paid | afrankita | afrahnkee'tah postal order | posxtmandato enlanda | posht-mahndah'toh | | en-lahn'da post-card | posxtkarto | pohsht-kahr'toh post-office | posxtoficejo | posht-ofeet-seh'yo postman | leterportisto | letehr'pohrtist'o postmaster | posxtestro | pohsh-tehs'tro re-address, to | readresi ...
— Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation • William W. Mann |
