What is "postmistress"

Usage examples of "postmistress".

Murphy said, eyeing the prim and oh-so-proper postmistress who held his mail hostage.

Letty Madden, postmistress of Boothill, Texas, was a prime candidate for the loony bin.

But if the postmistress insisted on rescuing her brother, which was laughable when he thought about it, death would come as a blessing.

A glass crashed to the floor and a chair overturned as the vast bulk of the postmistress rose to confront him.

Mrs Pettigrew, the widowed postmistress, who dyed her hair with tea-leaves and kept a small limp dog which looked like a skein of grey wool.

The postmistress thought she remembered that it was a woman who had handed it across the counter, and Torrence was still searching, compiling a list of recent arrivals from Paris, questioning two hundred people a day.

Mary Minor Haristeen, or Harry, the young, pretty postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, evinced interest in history as well as in animal behavior.

At thirty-three she was the youngest postmistress Crozet had ever had, but then no one else really wanted the job.

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

You have exquisite taste, I can see, but tell me, is my favorite postmistress really in danger?

The media had a field day with the heroic postmistress, her valiant cat and gallant dog, as well as stalwart Officer Cooper, so cool under fire.

She and the village postmistress are great friends, and between them they contrive to know pretty much what goes on inside every house in the place.

Amelia Bloomer, a postmistress in a small town in New York State, developed the bloomer, women activists adopted it in place of the old whale-boned bodice, the corsets and petticoats.

The postmistress was a woman in her late fifties or early sixties, dressed to meet the public with hair of a perfect beauty-shop blue-white.

Healy, Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, John Howard Parnell, the reverend Tinned Salmon, Professor Joly, Mrs Breen, Denis Breen, Theodore Purefoy, Mina Purefoy, the Westland Row postmistress, C.