| 单词 | mailboat |
| 例句 | Rough weather can delay ferries and mailboats, leaving residents stuck for days. Boat, snowmobile, camel: Vaccine reaches world’s far corners 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Others are blue-collar communities whose lifeblood depends on fishing, farming and the groceries and fuel delivered by a weekly mailboat that is nowhere to be seen. Days after Hurricane Dorian, responders reaching smaller, isolated cays in Bahamas 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Until an airport opened in 2017, the only way to reach St Helena, home to 4,500 islanders, was by sea, involving a five-night voyage on the mailboat from Cape Town. Bona part-time: Napoleon impersonator required on island of St Helena 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z "There's nothing that quite fits the thing here, and from what the West-coast mailboat men told me, craw-craw must be different," he said. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Elsie went round by Marseilles, saw the Seraph on board a P. and O. mailboat bound for Bombay and came overland to Rimini. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z The homeward bound mailboat arrived before Rideau the next day, and when she stopped at the first port connected by cable, Maxwell despatched a message to London: "Wire Hyslop to meet me by Malemba." The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z He would have no further opportunity for serving his present employers; and mailboat berths are not readily picked up. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Then no word of him until the monthly mailboat came in September. Alaska Days with John Muir Austin thanked him profusely, and felt a good deal easier when he and the mailboat's doctor, who arrived presently and gave him good advice, went away. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Farther out, a mailboat’s gently swaying hull blazed with electric light, and astern of her the reflection of a tramp steamer’s cargo lamp quivered upon the sea. Brandon of the Engineers The newcomer, instead of answering the question, caught at the table as he asked another: "What day of the month is this, and have they changed the homeward mailboat's time bill?" The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z He could have stood it had he come fresh from the sailing ships, but he frankly admitted that it was trying to a mailboat officer. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The Bayne Liner was no mailboat; I expected that my letters had been awaiting me for some time at the port; and the money could have been cabled nearly a month before this date. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers The little West-coast mailboat was close alongside now, and flags also commenced to flutter up between her masts, while her whistle screamed in long and short blasts. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z “After the Spartan simplicity we practise at the camp, it will be a refreshing change to eat a well-served dinner in a mailboat’s saloon, though I’ve no great admiration for British cookery.” Brandon of the Engineers It was a sunny afternoon when the little West Coast mailboat's engines ceased their throbbing off the mole of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Girls, he understood, often had a partiality for mailboat officers who were generally men of prepossessing appearance and manners. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The mailboat limped in early in the afternoon, waking the torpid town into semblance of interested activity during the brief duration of its stay. Terry A Tale of the Hill People In any case, it was clear that he had broken down the last bridge behind him when the mailboat stopped and lay rolling more wildly than ever athwart the long swell. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z No, the mailboat had gone on, had weighed anchor early in the morning, at sunrise, they told him, and had continued on her way up the coast. Civilization Tales of the Orient There were just one hundred such days before the Sapphire got reported "All well" in the chops of the Channel by an incoming mailboat. Tales Of Hearsay One rather amusing fellow was very much of the kind you’d meet at a sporting club, and the other had the stamp of a navy or first-class mailboat man. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The afternoon passed in preparation of monthly reports scheduled to go on the mailboat expected in that evening. Terry A Tale of the Hill People I don't expect him until he calls for his man—the one I've just hove out—when the West-coast mailboat comes in. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z For the mailboat must have come in last night, and the passengers had either been put ashore last evening, or had been put ashore at sunrise, supposing the boat remained discharging cargo all night. Civilization Tales of the Orient It's getting so desperate that I had thought for a moment, since we can't make our way south, whether I wouldn't try to steer west and make an attempt to reach the mailboat track. The Shadow Line; a confession Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown. Ulysses I had a desperate scramble to catch the mailboat which was due to leave next day, but I found time to write two short notes, one to Freya, the other to Jasper. 'Twixt Land and Sea It was towards the end of the afternoon when the skipper of the West-coast mailboat, peering through his glasses, made out two palms that rose apparently straight out of the sea. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z "Don't you know that it is rather a serious thing to delay a Spanish mailboat?" he said. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z It was not, he knew, seafarers of unexceptional character who usually ventured into the still little known creeks of Western Africa, which the coast mailboats' skippers left alone. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z The seas' ruler, he gazed southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail tacking by the Muglins. Ulysses The mailboat doctors and some of the traders he had met at Las Palmas had more than once related curious examples of the mental aberration which now and then results from malarial fever. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Your friends the mailboats' officers must have told you. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z |
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