Holiday missive

Usage examples of postcard.

Bunzie had protested that they were in a hurry, and off they went, promising him postcards and autographed paperbacks upon their return.

Van Buskirk of Montreal exotic reflective glasswares and glass-blowing hardware and broom and ordnance and survivalist cookware and hip postcards and black-lather gag soap and cheesy old low-demand InterLace 3rd-Grid cartridges and hand-buzzers and fraudulent but seductive X-ray spectacles and they were sent through the remains of Provincial Autoroute 557 U.

And when blurbs to that effect became available from other authors and critics, Little, Brown put them on postcards and dispatched another series of three.

Nevertheless it was still possible for Brother Longo to make out rows of snapshots, postcards, newspaper clippings: the record of a vanished world.

Officer Cooper had mentioned that the postmistress had an idea about postcards.

Her parents, rich once more, had first decided to start living in strict Russian style which they somehow associated with ornamental Slavic scriptory, postcards depicting sorrowing boyar maidens, varnished boxes bearing gaudy pyrogravures of troikas or firebirds, and the admirably produced, long since expired art magazines containing such wonderful photographs of old Russian manors and porcelain.

And at that very minute our slavey, little Ethelbertina, knocked at my bedroom door and gave me a postcard.

SAVAGE tore the illustration from the paper, inserted it into the stereopticon, which was somewhat like the postcard projecting type popular a few years ago.

It was just a postcard from Ahmedabad, where the Great Royal was performing, but the thought was what mattered to Dr Daruwalla.

Enormous topographical closeups of the various Sovereign Republics, wrinkled mountain ranges, satellite images of rivers, the Black Sea and Crimea, postcards from tourist spots and exotic cities: Samarkand, Bukhara, Vladivostok, Yerevan, Minsk, Kazan, Gorky, Arkhangelsk, even Moscow.

They, of course, were not the ones who had given that thundering market its bad reputation but more recent peddlers who made illegal sales of all kinds of questionable merchandise smuggled in on European ships, from obscene postcards and aphrodisiac ointments to the famous Catalonian condoms with iguana crests that fluttered when circumstances required or with flowers at the tip that would open their petals at the will of the user.

A lunchbox decoupaged in flea market postcards of fin de siecle aristocracy was the Amelia Ramos.

There were a couple racks of postcards, film, instant cameras, bare necessity fishing supplies at outrageous prices, Minne-tonka moccasins, rubber tomahawks for the kids, risk-kay joke gifts built around gags older than my Uncle Phil, Indian turquoise jewelry made in the Philippines.

Jonnie and Katie sent postcards home to their mother, then went with Iris and Doris to buy a present for her at the huge Galeries Lafayette the venerable Paris department store.

Three narrow aisles extend to the left of the door, offering the usual roadside merchandise: every imaginable snack food, the basic patent medicines, magazines, paperback books, postcards, novelty items designed to hang from rearview mirrors, and selected canned goods that sell to campers and to people, like Vess, who travel in homes on wheels.