"Mail boat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... home by the next mail boat save one. The same boat carried a letter in the Bishop's handwriting to a pastoral divine ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps
... going back by Suez," he began almost boisterously. "I have been looking up the sailing lists. If the zephirs of your Pacific are only moderately propitious I think we are sure to catch the mail boat due in Marseilles on the 18th of March. This will suit me excellently. . . ." He lowered his tone. "My dear young friend, I'm deeply grateful ...
— Within the Tides • Joseph Conrad
... enormous pressure of the water at these great depths makes it necessary to have suits strong enough to resist it. Lambert, a celebrated English diver, recovered L90,000 in specie from the steamer Alphonso XII, a Spanish mail boat belonging to the Lopez line, which sank off Point Gando, Grand Canary, in 26 1/2 fathoms of water. For nearly six months the salvage party, despatched by the underwriters in May, 1885, persevered in the operations; two divers lost their lives, the golden ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould |
