airmail envelope

(Mick wrote to his parents every day and had brought insufficient airmail envelopes.

Weng took an airmail envelope from his pocket and passed it to her.

"I hear you're staying at Roger's place," said the check-in girl, holding an airmail envelope.

"You see the Asians getting their money and putting it into registered letters and airmail envelopes," he said.

Much later, as I shook hands with Marshall and staggered back to the villa, he handed me an airmail envelope.

I'll bum some airmail envelopes from them.'

In "Letter," the pale blue of an airmail envelope turns into real sky and its tiny jetliner insignia takes flight.

The Goodbye room features brightly painted three dimensional cut-outs representing stamps, airmail envelopes and postcards.

On the flight home Oakley penciled the first outlines of what would become the Chopper onto the back of an airmail envelope.

I peeked through the little window of the Domingos family drawer and saw the striped margin of an airmail envelope.

And as to the matter of Bob bunging ten million pounds in an airmail envelope and posting it on, Jim, you are a double buffoon!'

He designed the commemorative vignette for the first airmail envelopes carried from England to Australia by Keith and Ross Smith in 1919.

Just a few years ago, extended trips abroad usually meant that travelers would disappear, surfacing occasionally only through hideously expensive phone calls or rumpled airmail envelopes bearing ancient postmarks.

His attention was seized by a triangle of pale blue, the corner of an airmail envelope, the two protruding edges marked by alternate parallelograms of red and dark blue.

One school of thought, during the war, had it that although he was great at picking, and setting up training programs for, dangerous men, Mac himself couldn't fight his way out of a lightweight airmail envelope.

When he must lift his 17-year-old bride to the ceiling to retrieve their wedding gifts - money in airmail envelopes tied by a ribbon above each table of guests - he can barely do it.

She would open the mailbox each morning, find the thin airmail envelope addressed weeks earlier in his distinctive script, and she would tremble with longing for her lost husband and with fear for herself and her children.

It is next to impossible to read these pages without mourning the whole apparatus of distance, without experiencing a deep and plangent longing for the airmail envelope, the sweetest shade of blue this side of a Tiffany box.

False signatures of the aviator Charles Lindbergh were clandestinely signed onto real 1930-era airmail envelopes bought at stamp shops and then re-sold to unwary buyers; the same has occurred with Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers.

Enlist the help of someone in London, have that person go to the post office and buy a prepaid registered airmail envelope that can be sent to your country (The service is calld Royal Mail international signed for or airsure within Europe).

Once it was gone, she would walk to the box and sort through the bundle, looking for the telltale signs of his letters: the beige airmail envelopes he favored, postage stamps that depicted a world she knew nothing about, his name scrawled in the upper-left-hand corner.

Professors in fiction are often humorously presented as absent-minded, and Dr. Modarressi doesn't try to avoid this; indeed, the book opens with Besharat forgetting to buy airmail envelopes for letters to an American professor - letters that, in any case, never seem to arrive.

An airmail envelope purchased recently from a dealer in Britain looks perfectly ordinary on its face: the letter is addressed to the Somali branch of the BBC at Bush House, London, and bears two pairs of Kenyan stamps totaling 11 East African shillings in postage.

Then, as in a fairy tale, she unearthed in that underground locker a mysterious artifact - a rusted ammunition box that revealed hundreds of yellowing airmail envelopes, all addressed to Steinman's mother in her father's handwriting, all dated between 1941 and 1945 and postmarked from Army bases or overseas.