"Only the postman, Bunny! He will come now and again, though they have obviously left instructions at the post-office. I hope the old colonel will let them have it when he gets back. I confess it gave me a turn."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
But Cunning did not really leave the field: that very evening an aged man, in green spectacles, was inquiring about the postal arrangements to Vizard Court; and next day he might have been seen, in a back street of Taddington, talking to the village postman, and afterward drinking with him. It was Poikilus groping his way.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
It was only the postman with a letter in his hand, and the post-bag crumpled up under his arm.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"Very bad, monsieur," answered the postman. "Camille Desmoulins has appealed to the people in the Palais Royal; there are fears of a riot."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"None _to_ the house," said the postman, "only one _from_ it, given me by Monsieur Trudaine. Hardly worth while," he added, twirling the letter in his hand, "to put it into the bag, is it?"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"I wonder whether he accepts the place or refuses it?" thought the land-steward, nodding to the postman, and continuing on his way back to the house.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》