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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stamp
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a seal/stamp of approval (=official approval)
▪ You must not make decisions without your manager’s seal of approval.
a stamp/coin/book/glass etc collection
▪ an impressive Roman coin collection
date stamp
establish/assert/impose/stamp your authority (=show people that you have authority)
▪ The new manager was anxious to establish her authority.
▪ Robertson quickly stamped his authority on the team.
▪ The State Department pressed him to take bolder steps to assert his authority.
first-class stamp/mail/post etc
food stamp
postage stamp
rubber stamp
stamp collecting
stamp duty
stamp out corruption (=stop it completely)
▪ The party's chairman called for action to stamp out corruption.
stamp your feet (=bang them noisily on the ground)
▪ He stamped his feet in an attempt to keep warm.
stamped addressed envelope
stamped, self-addressed envelope (=with your address on it so it can be sent back to you)
▪ Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
stamping ground
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ Surely our new 18p stamp should not be printed as I8p with a Roman I followed by an arabic 8.
▪ Individuals seeking first-day cancellations of the new stamps should purchase them at a post office and place them on addressed envelopes.
▪ But children in their households can receive the new state-paid food stamps.
▪ The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.
official
▪ A 35-cent brochure on the trail is available at each site, where visitors may obtain an official stamp representing each location.
rubber
▪ In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
▪ This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments.
▪ Businesses often seek to incorporate their terms, or individual terms, by using a rubber stamp.
▪ Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave.
▪ Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
▪ It is difficult to think what could make the Assemblée resemble a rubber stamp more than this.
▪ On the surface, the veneer of an open democratic debate; underneath, the potential of a pre-determined rubber stamp.
▪ Parliament is seen as a rubber stamp for decisions made elsewhere.
trading
▪ There is uncertainty as to whether the exchange of trading stamps for goods is a sale or an exchange.
■ NOUN
class
▪ We will lower the limit on the Post office monopoly much closer to the level of the first class stamp.
▪ Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp.
▪ It must have been mailed a few days ago, with a second class stamp.
▪ It was the Saint Mary's window though, which was considered best for the first class stamp.
collection
▪ The value of the stamp collection should be typed in.
▪ I got home and for a couple of hours I worked on my stamp collection.
▪ I have this urge to snow you my childhood stamp collection, just that I don't have one.
collector
▪ We asked Gloucester's stamp collectors what they made of today's break with tradition.
▪ Also patron of clerics, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, stamp collectors, telecommunications workers, and television workers.
▪ Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector.
date
▪ Always check the date stamp to be sure.
▪ The date stamp must be altered every day, as the Post Office will not accept pre- or post-dated mail.
duty
▪ Stamp duty Another central government tax raised on transfers of ownership is stamp duty.
▪ Increasing the stamp duty threshold on house sales from £30,000 to £60,000.
▪ Radical breaks on stamp duty are planned to entice house buyers into rundown areas.
▪ This means that stamp duty is assessed by reference to the highest ascertainable rent which might become payable under the lease.
▪ This will reduce Newco's stamp duty bill.
▪ The section specified that stamp duty of 50p was payable on such an instrument.
▪ Whichever buy-in regime applies, stamp duty is payable by Target at one-half percent on the return of the cancelled shares.
▪ Therefore the stamp duty on a house worth £70,000 is £700.
food
▪ They had no right to food stamps or unemployment benefits.
▪ Example: Our food stamp program is designed to improve the diets of low-income families.
▪ Social security, unemployment compensation, welfare, Medicare, food stamps, and public housing are examples.
▪ Vermont has double the percentage of people on food stamps in any given month.
▪ Democrats favor providing for food stamps and Supplemental Security Income.
▪ The department responsible for food stamps and improving conditions for the rural poor should rightfully be held to the highest human-rights standard.
▪ Between 1989 and 1993 the number of children receiving food stamps increased by 51 percent.
▪ They also qualified for food stamps and Medicare.
postage
▪ And postage stamps are not the only things that have gone up in price.
▪ She will take your cigarettes, money, paper clips, postage stamps, whatever you want to give her.
▪ Finally, from the 40p would be deducted the cost of the telephone call or postage stamp to make the complaint.
▪ And on the dining-room table were silver goblets, and a big silver tureen in which reflections lay like brilliant postage stamps.
▪ If and when the Post Office is privatised, will our postage stamps continue to bear a portrait of the monarch?
▪ All we ever did was make a little wine, print up a lot of postage stamps.
▪ Improbable because compared to the plump, leather-lined Bentley, a barn door has the frontal area of a postage stamp.
▪ In its upper right corner, where it belonged, a postage stamp had been etched in the yellow gold.
program
▪ Example: Our food stamp program is designed to improve the diets of low-income families.
▪ The bill would have made changes in the food stamp program but would have kept it under federal control.
▪ The Republican majority has backed away from plans to dramatically scale back the food stamp program.
▪ Much of the savings would come from a $ 28. 4 billion cut in the growth of the food stamp program.
▪ That measure would not allow states to take over the food stamp program.
▪ Under the Senate bill, the food stamp program would be left under the control of the federal government.
■ VERB
bear
▪ It did not, now, bear the stamp of Duncan on it.
▪ His early work, produced between 1930 and 1933, bears the stamp of sectarianism.
▪ In the first two weeks of January 1992, 18 more people were killed in murders bearing the stamp of death squads.
▪ The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun.
▪ How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original?
▪ Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps.
▪ Such cheques will bear the bank's stamp and a bank official's signature on their face.
buy
▪ Male speaker People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps.
▪ It makes her feel very grown-up to walk to the post office and to buy airmail stamps.
▪ There is not even a postcard to buy, let alone a stamp.
collect
▪ And he broke bones like other people collect stamps.
▪ Y., collected stamps and, as a high school honors student, performed science experiments on the conductivity of seawater.
▪ Perhaps your Pack would like to collect stamps together - why don't you ask your Brown Owl?
give
▪ Impressed by what he saw, the emperor gave karate his stamp of approval and at once it became very popular.
▪ A multiple transfer of assets may be time consuming if consents are required and may give rise to unnecessary stamp duty.
▪ And as for the young singers, they certainly gave the design the stamp of approval.
▪ They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 - but they'd given me their stamp.
issue
▪ An Post has also issued a commemorative stamp to mark the event.
▪ Oaxaca's philatelic museum, meanwhile, announced that it would issue a stamp bearing Morales' image and signature.
pay
▪ The purchaser of assets will pay stamp duty at double this rate but on only part of the consideration.
▪ Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years' free unemployment cover.
put
▪ No one has managed to put their stamp on Stockton South.
▪ He deserves a chance to put his own stamp on the program.
▪ That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence.
▪ What if I lick every single one of my invitations shut without putting stamps on the reply cards?
▪ It also opened a convention at which Mr Gore must put his own stamp on the Democratic party.
▪ Laurence argued that putting cartoon characters on stamps is precisely not the way to capture the imagination of children.
▪ Sight: Put six foreign stamps on the table.
▪ But every real team finds some way to put a personal stamp on its purpose.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
second-class mail/post/stamp etc
▪ First-class and second-class mail should be put through the machine on separate runs.
▪ The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Louis, get over here!" Margaret demanded with a stamp of her foot.
▪ a stamp in your passport
▪ a 32-cent stamp
▪ Do you save stamps?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Do not forget there is no stamp needed.
▪ Individuals seeking first-day cancellations of the new stamps should purchase them at a post office and place them on addressed envelopes.
▪ Requests for the Learning stamp should be postmarked by March 20 and the Merian prints by June 1.
▪ The food stamps which government provides to such families can be spent only on food.
▪ The material from the iron mortar boxes was washed out on to a screen and the oversize returned to the stamps.
▪ There is no signature silhouette or personal stamp left by color or texture.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ Giants, the epigones of Uranus, stamp around in the cold, steaming like cattle.
▪ Finally Baby Suggs slapped the boys' hands away from the bucket and sent Stamp around to the pump to rinse himself.
▪ But tonight his thoughts were stamping around his mind wearing heavy boots.
down
▪ He threw down the knife, turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall.
▪ He stamped down on the accelerator and we flew for eight or ten blocks.
▪ She pictured the man stamping down through his pub, irate and duty-bound.
▪ Then we caught a light and he stamped down just as hard on the pedal.
▪ Those that sent you here have forgotten you, buried you, stamped down the earth on your memory.
▪ The clatter was quite effective until one of the masters stamped down on the offenders.
▪ A boot stamped down an inch away.
off
▪ And when that didn't work, he had an animated discussion with team manager Maurizio Mancini before stamping off.
▪ Sir John had then stamped off, muttering curses about public officials who didn't seem to care.
on
▪ He later said he had seen people being slapped around and stamped on by police.
▪ Meanwhile, though creative financing has mostly been stamped on, some councils' past ingenuity is catching up with them.
▪ It had London stamped on it in large letters.
▪ When he came off stage the violets had been kicked into the wings, stamped on by Tiger Lily's Redskins.
▪ Today the old-fashioned kind of graft mostly gets stamped on by a fiercely nit-picking bureaucracy.
▪ It is thought she may have been punched or stamped on.
out
▪ Using a cutter, stamp out nine leaves.
▪ It is something that cannot be stamped out, or stifled, or gagged, or suppressed by any means.
▪ Pitt was a great philanthropist and wanted to stamp out smuggling, which was rife.
▪ Why, then, do so many experts seek to stamp out fear?
▪ There were always new battles to fight, new obstacles to uproot, new heresies to stamp out.
▪ Once again the real estate agent stamped out of the room, muttering angrily.
▪ Roll thinly and stamp out 16 small leaves.
▪ Miguel turned away, stamping out his cigarette, facing the wall like it was his future.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ But for the most part, he seems to be trying to stamp his authority and conservatism on a divided Congress.
▪ The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.
▪ Conwy's atmospheric cluster of lofty towers and town walls, 700 years on, still stamp their authority on the landscape.
▪ He has three young daughters of his own, and loses no time in stamping his authority on the entire brood.
▪ So in came James - and he recovered from a jittery start to stamp his authority on an emphatic Liverpool win.
▪ This caning had its effect for the whole class knew that Miss Smith would stand no nonsense and it stamped her authority.
▪ With Rangers two goals up, Baxter was stamping his mazy authority on the game.
envelope
▪ Here there were piles of newspapers, heaps of books, manuscripts, labels, rubber stamps, envelopes.
▪ I enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope.
food
▪ The budget would soften a provision that limits able-bodied adults without children to three months of food stamps in any 36-month period.
foot
▪ Scrambling to his feet, he tested the floor at his feet by stamping with the heel of his uninjured leg.
▪ Her bare foot stamped the ground and the necklace clattered.
▪ Flittern Rattletrap hammered the strings of a low-throated stringed instrument, his feet stamping time.
mark
▪ Mr Portillo, who is favoured to become the next party leader, immediately stamped his mark on his new portfolio.
▪ Flesh includes every part of existence that humans have stamped their mark on.
passport
▪ His features relaxed and he stamped my passport.
▪ Emmett, an immigration officer at Gatwick airport, stamped the passports, giving their holders the right to enter Britain indefinitely.
▪ The woman who stamped my passport made me change money with her and she robbed me.
▪ She stamps his passport without a word.
postage
▪ But there you go, looking for the big picture on a postage stamp again.
▪ Coins, jewelry, postage stamps, a Matisse litho, all passed through my hands.
rubber
▪ The Democrats need to relocate the middle ground between rubber-stamping nominees who are unacceptable and abusing the confirmation process.
▪ Here there were piles of newspapers, heaps of books, manuscripts, labels, rubber stamps, envelopes.
▪ In the past, new members were chosen by Samaranch and his executive board and rubber-stamped by the membership.
▪ Policy is determined by the Prime Minister and ministers individually, and rubber-stamped by Cabinet afterwards.
■ VERB
send
▪ Newbridge substitute Stuart Griffiths was also sent off for stamping against Pontypridd, just six minutes after coming on.
try
▪ But for the most part, he seems to be trying to stamp his authority and conservatism on a divided Congress.
▪ I rose and tried to stamp the cramp from my feet as I heard a clatter of mops and pails.
▪ One of the most positive things the Catholic Church had done for screwing was trying to stamp it out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's stamping ground
▪ A party conference is a natural stamping ground for those who have barely four days in which to make a mark.
▪ It's my guess he is trying to reach his old stamping ground.
▪ Like Banquo's ghost her figure would be seen haunting her old stamping ground.
▪ This raises the question: where is the natural stamping ground for experienced lawyers with case management skills?
second-class mail/post/stamp etc
▪ First-class and second-class mail should be put through the machine on separate runs.
▪ The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
stamping ground
▪ A party conference is a natural stamping ground for those who have barely four days in which to make a mark.
▪ But not your place, of course: we're a good four hundred light years from your usual stamping grounds.
▪ It's my guess he is trying to reach his old stamping ground.
▪ Like Banquo's ghost her figure would be seen haunting her old stamping ground.
▪ This raises the question: where is the natural stamping ground for experienced lawyers with case management skills?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The letters are stamped and are ready to be mailed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Meanwhile, though creative financing has mostly been stamped on, some councils' past ingenuity is catching up with them.
▪ Miguel turned away, stamping out his cigarette, facing the wall like it was his future.
▪ One cradled a paper cup of coffee in both hands, stamping his feet as if it was cold.
▪ Pitt was a great philanthropist and wanted to stamp out smuggling, which was rife.
▪ Punching postman Tony Thornton says he's going to stamp on Eubank - but Eubank plans to return the challenger to sender.
▪ Roll thinly and stamp out 16 small leaves.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stamp

Stamp \Stamp\, n.

  1. The act of stamping, as with the foot.

  2. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.

    'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy.
    --Dryden.

  3. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.

    That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass.
    --Dryden.

  4. That which is marked; a thing stamped.

    Hanging a golden stamp about their necks.
    --Shak.

  5. [F. estampe, of German origin. See Stamp, v. t.] A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate. [Obs.]

    At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence.
    --Addison.

  6. An official mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.

  7. Hence: A stamped or printed device, usually paper, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a tax stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.

  8. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.

  9. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.

    Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  10. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.

    A soldier of this season's stamp.
    --Shak.

  11. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or beating.

  12. A half-penny. [Obs.]
    --Beau. & Fl.

  13. pl. Money, esp. paper money. [Slang, U.S.] Stamp act, an act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null and void. Stamp collector,

    1. an officer who receives or collects stamp duties.

    2. one who collects postage or other stamps, as an avocation or for investment; a philatelist.

      Stamp duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc., the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a stamp. [Eng.]

      Stamp hammer, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill.

      Stamp head, a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill.

      Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore.

      Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.]

      Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties.

Stamp

Stamp \Stamp\ (st[a^]mp) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stamped (st[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Stamping.] [OE. stampen; akin to LG. & D. stampen, G. stampfen, OHG. stampf[=o]n, Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. step. See Step, v. i., and cf. Stampede.]

  1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
    --Shak.

    He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
    --Dryden.

  2. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.

  3. To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.

    I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small.
    --Deut. ix. 21.

  4. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.

  5. Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.

    God . . . has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.
    --Locke.

  6. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.

  7. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.

    To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion.

Stamp

Stamp \Stamp\, v. i.

  1. To strike; to beat; to crush.

    These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To strike the foot forcibly downward.

    But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies.
    --Dennis.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stamp

mid-15c., "instrument for crushing, stamping tool," from stamp (v.). Especially "instrument for making impressions" (1570s). Meaning "downward thrust or blow with the foot, act of stamping" is from 1580s. Sense of "official mark or imprint" (to certify that duty has been paid on what has been printed or written) dates from 1540s; transferred 1837 to designed, pre-printed adhesive labels issued by governments to serve the same purpose as impressed stamps. German Stempel "rubber stamp, brand, postmark" represents a diminutive form. Stamp-collecting is from 1862 (compare philately).

stamp

Old English stempan "to pound in a mortar," from Proto-Germanic *stamp- (cognates: Old Norse stappa, Danish stampe, Middle Dutch stampen, Old High German stampfon, German stampfen "to stamp with the foot, beat, pound," German Stampfe "pestle"), from nasalized form of PIE root *stebh- "to support, place firmly on" (cognates: Greek stembein "to trample, misuse;" see staff (n.)). The vowel altered in Middle English, perhaps by influence of Scandinavian forms.\n

\nSense of "strike the foot forcibly downwards" is from mid-14c. The meaning "impress or mark (something) with a die" is first recorded 1550s. Italian stampa "stamp, impression," Spanish estampar "to stamp, print," French étamper (13c., Old French estamper) "to stamp, impress" are Germanic loan-words. Related: Stamped; stamping. To stamp out originally was "extinguish a fire by stamping on it;" attested from 1851 in the figurative sense. Stamping ground "one's particular territory" (1821) is from the notion of animals. A stamped addressed envelope (1873) was one you enclosed in a letter to speed or elicit a reply.

Wiktionary
stamp

n. 1 An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof. 2 An indentation or imprint made by stamping. 3 A device for stamping designs. 4 A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work. 5 A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage stamp or other costs such as tax or licence fees. 6 (context slang figuratively English) A tattoo 7 (context slang English) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly. 2 (context transitive English) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly. 3 (context transitive English) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. 4 (context transitive English) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily. 5 (context transitive English) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol. 6 (context transitive English) To apply postage stamps to. 7 (context transitive figurative English) To mark; to impress.

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WordNet
stamp

  1. v. walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" [syn: stomp, stump]

  2. to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps"

  3. reveal clearly as having a certain character; "His playing stamps him as a Romantic"

  4. affix a stamp to; "Are the letters properly stamped?"

  5. treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" [syn: pigeonhole, stereotype]

  6. destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"

  7. form or cut out with a mold, form, or die; "stamp needles"

  8. crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice"

  9. raise in a relief; "embossed stationary" [syn: emboss, boss]

stamp

  1. n. a token that postal fees have been paid [syn: postage, postage stamp]

  2. the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: cast, mold]

  3. a type or class; "more men of his stamp are needed"

  4. a symbol that is the result of printing; "he put his stamp on the envelope" [syn: impression]

  5. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores [syn: pestle]

  6. a block or die used to imprint a mark or design

  7. a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents [syn: seal]

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Stamp

Stamp may refer to:

Stamp (surname)

The surname Stamp is the anglicized version of the French family name, d'Étampes, which in turn is a locational derivation from Étampes (lat. Stampae), a community near Paris, France.

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Usage examples of "stamp".

It had the return address of a hospital, but there was no addressee, no stamp, no postmark.

He would eventually reheat the card and stamp a new name and number on its face with an addressograph plate.

A bill, therefore, was immediately passed, allowing the sign-manual to be adhibited by a stamp.

The card, with stamp and postmark, became the liner information and gave the album its title: Postcard.

Egypt, I think it necessary to subjoin an history of two others of the like stamp, who have made no less figure in the annals of Babylon and Assyria.

But supposing a committee of arboriculturists, in these days of stamping out all the joyous old pantheistic customs, were to sit in open-air conclave and adjudge the reward of a caressing parasite to the sturdiest old trunk in the Australian bush, this ancient gum-tree would have been entwined for its remaining decades--years are of little account in the life of such a tree--by the very Abishag of a creeper.

But while he basked in his new happiness I travelled in my close stuffy envelope to Dulminster, and after having been tossed in and out of bags, shuffled, stamped, thumped, tied up, and generally shaken about, I arrived one morning at Dulminster Archdeaconry, and was laid on the breakfast table among other appetising things to greet Mrs.

OUT fully clothed on her bed under a fuzzy blanket stamped with a Hilton Hotel imprint, Arra muttered an incoherent protest and immediately went to sleep.

After studying it for a moment, Asey closed the book and thoughtfully surveyed the rather ornately tooled backstrip, and the stamped date - 1892.

The policeman opened a briefcase, stamped the documents in several places, then made out a lengthy form, occasionally asking Bluey questions.

One of them is--surprise--based in Milton Keynes, and as of right this minute you have clearance to stamp all over their turf and play the Gestapo officer with our top boffin labs.

The credulity of the Parisians, and their love of high-flown bombast, amount to a disease, which, if this city is not to sink into a species of Baden Baden, must be stamped out.

For grown-up people the modern books which are sent out in such numbers, often very cheap, have likewise an artificial cityfied air so obviously got up and theatrical, such a mark of machinery on them, all stamped and chucked out by the thousand, that they have no attraction for a people who live with nature, and even in old age retain a certain childlike faith in honesty and genuine work.

Stamping and hopping about, suddenly more cheerful because of the sheer silliness of what she was doing, she started dancing with the sunbeams, kicking up swirls of strawdust, until she slipped and landed on her coccyx with a thud that jarred her brain.

I found more cash, more stamps, more coins, and a fair amount of jewelry, including the watch and earrings from the Colcannon burglary.