"Postage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the gratifying fact that the loss of revenue from the reduction in the rate of letter postage recommended in my message of December 4, 1882, and effected by the act of March 3, 1883, has been much less than was generally anticipated. My recommendation of this reduction was based upon the belief that the actual falling off in receipts from letter postages for ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Chester A. Arthur • Chester A. Arthur
... People" residing in all parts of the United States, the Publishers will forward by return of the FIRST MAIL any book named in this List. The postage will be prepaid by them at the New York Post-Office. By this arrangement of paying postage in advance, fifty per cent is saved to the purchaser. The price of each work, including postage, is given, so that the exact amount may ...
— Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women • George Sumner Weaver
... she says 'and I can't do it for the prying and peeping of the servants up at the house.' Who the letter was written to I can't tell you: it must have been a mortal long one, judging by the time she stopped up-stairs over it. I offered her a postage-stamp when she came down. She hadn't got the letter in her hand, and she didn't accept the stamp. A little close, poor soul (as you know), about herself and her doings. But a friend she has got somewhere, I can tell ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... of Harry, the Imp was exactly of that opinion. But Southend was for diplomacy; indeed what pleasure is there in manoeuvring schemes if they are not to be conducted with delicacy? A policy that can be defined on a postage stamp has no attraction for ingenious minds, although it is usually the ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... doubt they expected to see this present fad run its course, and that some new notion would eventually displace it. They knew that boys must have a hobby of some sort. With one it may be a mania for collecting things in the line of autographs or postage stamps; while another may start to stuff birds, secure all sorts of eggs, make fishing rods, take pictures with a modern little kodak camera, or one of dozens of other things that are apt to appeal to the ...
— Chums of the Camp Fire • Lawrence J. Leslie
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