Civil-service ringer

Usage examples of postman.

As the postman leapt back into his van, Mark returned to the silent kitchen and the empty screen of his laptop.

According to the postman, the local Ofsted inspector lives next door to her and she throws water on his cat because ft pees in her garden.

Still, Rosie thought, if it put the postman off, she had no intention of tidying it up.

It was difficult to imagine the film star and the red-faced, roll-eyed postman as an item.

It seemed very odd that Mrs Womersley, who had always seemed to regard him with suspicion, would let the postman into her confidence to such an extent.

Even given his gift for inaccurate precis, it seemed unlikely the postman had got things this wrong.

What did the bloody postman know about what papers would be interested in?

Mr Pump set off towards the distant counter, and the bearded Junior Postman panicked.

The new, painfully slow arrival was Senior Postman Aggy, dragging one leg because it had a bulldog attached to it.

Half an hour later, still tacky to the touch, each one accompanied by a human postman, the golems took to the streets.

He drank to the postman, coughing a little but relishing the warm glow.

For the visiting postman and his company, they put on a folk festival, of sorts.

Gordon realized then that Powhatan was paying the visiting postman back with interest for the unasked-for guilt he had been delivered.

He had been a postman twenty-five years without a promotion, and with only infinitesimal advances in salary.

After dinner Vincent sketched Madame Roulin, chatting with the postman as he worked.