1 Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.
2 But it was the part she did not read that tormented Scarlett, that drove her to surreptitious reading of her sister-in-law's mail.
3 After all, she wasn't reading Melanie's mail to learn Ashley's puzzling and uninteresting ideas.
4 No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
5 If you can get me some, don't mail them.
6 The telegraph wires were still, no trains came in on the one remaining railroad from the south and the mail service was broken.
7 The mail service in the South was uncertain and in the rural districts there was none at all.
8 She did not know if the lack of mail service was the cause, or if he had merely trifled with her affections and then forgotten her.
9 He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.
10 There were days when the town was completely shut off, when they had no mail, no express, no fresh meat, no newspapers.
11 Every mail I look for a letter, and when I get one I'm kind of scared to open it, I'm hoping so much that you're coming back.
12 I had never heard the postmaster say anything but 'Only papers, to-day,' or, 'I've got a sackful of mail for ye,' until this afternoon.
13 Even on Sundays she went to the office to open the mail and read the markets.
14 It used a carload of paper every week, and the mail trains would be hours loading up at the depot of the little Kansas town.
15 Manifestly not, since some work is easy and some hard, and we should have millions of rural mail carriers, and no coal miners.