... ice became so thick that the steamboat could no longer make her trips. Walky Dexter became mail carrier and brought the mail from ... — Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... a few moments looking at the mail carrier reflectively while he talked; but fatigue soon began to show itself, and one after another they climbed up and occupied the top rail of the fence, hump-shouldered and grave, like a company of buzzards assembled for supper and listening for the death-rattle. ... — The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner