"Postcard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are anxious to try the meat, and are unable to procure it, a postcard to the Head Office, 15, Dowgate Hill, London, E.C., or to any of the Branch Offices, will at once put them in the way ...
— Nelson's Home Comforts - Thirteenth Edition • Mary Hooper
... Monday you are threading between the rocks that introduce you to Stavanger. That same night you are (wind and weather permitting) at Bergen, and thence next day you are going up the beautiful fiords to the river of your choice amidst surroundings that are nowadays the property of the picture postcard. ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior
... there is another bird which the farmers love to wage incessant war upon. The other day I received the following message printed on the back of a postcard:— ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
... Angela, would be glad to be excused from paying a large sum for a picture they did not want. He was sure from the young girl's manner that she would no more care to possess a portrait of herself than a coloured postcard of the Colosseum or a plaster-cast of one of Canova's dancing-girls. This was not flattering to the artist, it was true, but in the present case he would rather keep his own painting than have it appreciated ever so ...
— The White Sister • F. Marion Crawford
... our case we addressed ourselves to Mr. Otto Kern, Vienna Bakery, Rue de la Prefecture, Pau, requesting him to supply us with a certain quantity of bread daily, at whatever place we might be. We had previously decided on our route on broad lines, so that a postcard as a rule was sufficient to give notice of a change in our address; while if a sudden alteration occurred in our plans, a half-franc telegram told him the news, and our bread never failed to be at the right place on the right day. The bread sufficient for four people, carriage thereof, ...
— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough
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