What is "undelivered"

Usage examples of "undelivered".

Hitherto the American office has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters.

He clutched the bomb to his chest like an undelivered birthday present.

Slowly, they forced their way up the long slope, under the lowering sky, pregnant with undelivered clouds of snow.

They had been at each others throats since Sunday when Danny Alverez had disappeared into thin air, leaving behind a brandnew bike and a bagful of undelivered newspapers.

Though it would have been easy enough to pick some technical quarrel with him, over an undelivered essay for example, Dixon was reluctant to do so because he felt superstitiously that Michie was capable of insisting on studying Medieval Life and Culture out of sheer spite and desire to do him down.

Apart from that, he could try hitting Ashe Levy for a substantial advance on the undelivered novel and hock his soul in the process.

He swallowed the exceeding sourness of a retort undelivered, together with the feeling that she beat him in the wrangle by dint of her being an unreasonable wench.

The matter turned, he learned as he read, on whether the goods exchanged for the undelivered goods were perishable, consumable, or durable.

One of the first acts of Jefferson was his instruction to Secretary of State Madison to withhold commissions to office which remained undelivered.

Then we got this report of a disturbance on the steps of Low, basketball players beating somebody up, and we found you with a pile of undelivered papers clutched in your arm, and that was it.

There were love-letters, hate-letters, ransom notes, pleadings, sheets on which men had drawn round their hard-ons, valentines of pubic hair, blackmail by wives, journalists, hustlers, lawyers and senators, junk-mail and suicide notes, lost novels, chain letters, resumes, undelivered gifts, rejected gifts, letters sent out into the wilderness like bottles from an island, in the hope of finding help, poems, threats and recipes.

Full of his choler and his refusal of further responsibility, he geed up and sped on, rehearsing some choice things to say when his barrel-boss reproached him for his undelivered load.

A mail carrier was crumpled on the floor before the open honeycomb of mail slots, undelivered envelopes piled at his shoes.