"Prepaid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deserving, that is absurd: he had to die in the endeavour to make us listen and receive. 'When ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.' Duty is a thing prepaid: it can never have desert. There is no claim on God that springs from us: ...
— Unspoken Sermons - Series I., II., and II. • George MacDonald
... the Duke saw that the message, with which was a prepaid form for reply, had been handed in at the Tankerton post-office. It ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... "No; it's a prepaid telegram. It was delivered with another one for Colonel Colby. He signed for it, thinking you might be asleep. I hope you haven't got ...
— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield
... she found Alice waiting with a telegram in hand "its for you miss" she said "and the reply is prepaid." ...
— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford
... gray-haired man in the community, kept tavern and was an oracle on nearly all subjects. He was also postmaster, and a wash-stand drawer served as post office. It cost twenty-five cents in those times to pass a letter between Wisconsin and the East. Postage did not have to be prepaid, and I have known my father to go several days before he could raise the requisite cash to redeem a letter which he had heard awaited him in the wash-stand drawer, for Uncle Ben was not allowed to accept farm produce or even bank script ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester
... said that it will be impossible to secure the services of postmasters, without giving them the franking privilege. But it will be found that the cheap and uniform postage, always prepaid, will so greatly diminish the labor of keeping the post-office, as to remove the objection in most cases to taking the trouble. And for the rest, it is only for the department to demand that, if the people of any neighborhood ...
— Cheap Postage • Joshua Leavitt
... reply on the prepaid form which had accompanied the wire and dispatched it by the telegraph boy, who was waiting placidly in the sunshine—and looked as though he were prepared to wait all day if necessary. Then, when she had slit the last fat pod in her basket and shelled its contents, ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... and attention should be devoted to epistolary correspondence, as nothing exhibits want of taste and judgment so much as a slovenly letter. Since the establishment of the penny postage it is recognised as a rule that all letters should be prepaid; indeed, many persons make a point of never taking in an unpaid letter. The following hints may be ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... me frae the far countrie Wi' its silken string and a'; But it wasna prepaid," said that high-born maid, "Sae I gar'd them ...
— Phantasmagoria and Other Poems • Lewis Carroll
... of THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN will be supplied gratis for every club of five subscribers at $3.20 each: additional copies at same proportionate rate. Postage prepaid. ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various
... Rudolph Lehmann be elected Permanent Secretary, and that the duty of sending out all notices convening the Meets of the T.P.C., as well as all arrangements connected with the Club, be entrusted to him; and that every notice of meeting be posted and prepaid by him eight lunar, or at least three calendar, days before the date of each Meet; and further, that records in a neat and clerkly style of each and every Meet be faithfully kept by the said Secretary, and be at all ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... an enterprising American newspaper correspondent took advantage of President Kruger's penchant for quoting Scripture, and telegraphed to him daily texts, selected as applicable to the event, for which the replies to be sent were always prepaid. For instance, on news of a British victory, the American would telegraph: "Victory stayeth not always with the righteous"; on which President Kruger would promptly rejoin: "Yet shall I smite him, even unto the end." This was the plan ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker
... the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, Canada, or Mexico, on receipt ...
— A Manifest Destiny • Julia Magruder
... information from the Public Record Offices, in any branch of literature, history, genealogy, or the like, but who, from an imperfect acquaintance with the documents preserved in those depositories, are unable to prosecute their inquiries with satisfaction. Address by letter, prepaid, to W. H. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various
... to subscribers in any part of the United States or Canada. Six dollars a year, sent, prepaid, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 • Various
... empty over and over again, for every bait is a record-breaker and they catch fish. We want you to put in one of these cases so that the anglers will not be disappointed and have to wait for baits to be ordered. It will be furnished FREE, charges prepaid, with your order for the dozen ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... the Commissioners of Emigration, in their thirty-first General Report: "In 1870, as in former years, the amount sent home was large, being L727,408 from North America, and L12,804 from Australia and New Zealand. Of this sum there was remitted in prepaid passages to Liverpool, Glasgow, and Londonderry, L332,638; more than was sufficient to pay the passage money for all who emigrated that year! Imperfect as our accounts are," continue the Commissioners, ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... prepaid, to subscribers in any part of the United States or Canada. Six dollars a year, sent, prepaid, to any ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various
... operate. For this reason all bulbs should be tried out on receipt. If any bulb is found defective, the tag which accompanies it should be filled out, and bulb and tag should be returned to your dealer or to the nearest office of the General Electric Company, transportation prepaid. ...
— The Automobile Storage Battery - Its Care And Repair • O. A. Witte
... morning the books of the company were overhauled, and after a long, patient and careful search it was found that on October 23d, two days before the robbery, a valise had been expressed to a Daniel Moriarity, Leavenworth, Kansas, charges prepaid, by a man named ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... will send the above work by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on ...
— Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... word after the first twelve. Addresses are charged for, so a sixpennyworth of telegraphing does not represent a long message, but by ingenuity—and a business woman is nothing without ingenuity—a few words may be made to mean a great deal. The cost of a reply to a telegram may be prepaid. ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. • Various
... works are for sale by all booksellers, or will be mailed by the publishers, postage prepaid, ...
— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... irresistible charm, clinging for hours like lovers loath to part. Just a few drops are enough. Full size bottle 98c prepaid or $1.39 C.O.D. plus postage. Directions with every order. FREE: 1 full size bottle if ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... happy to find that the fiscal condition of the Department is such as to justify the Postmaster-General in recommending the reduction of our inland letter postage to 3 cents the single letter when prepaid and 5 cents when not prepaid. He also recommends that the prepaid rate shall be reduced to 2 cents whenever the revenues of the Department, after the reduction, shall exceed its expenditures by more than 5 per cent for two consecutive years; that the postage ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... morning the following advertisement, prepaid in cash, and insert it here by reason of the great interest which we feel sure it ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... a refreshing, toning bath. Give Louisenbad Reduction Salt a fair trial. Price $1 per package or 6 packages for $5. For sale at all first class Drug Stores or sent in plain sealed wrapper, express prepaid ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... shot downward from the air and leaping up out of the earth. Unhappily, the third was not on, nor the fourth—not exactly on. Exactly on is the way that British gunners like to fill an order f.o.b., express charges prepaid, for ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... a bell from a cat's collar, an iron kitchen spoon, and a piece of coal more than half the superficies of this sheet of paper. They are now (appropriately enough) speeding towards the Silly Isles; I hope he will find them useful. By that, and my telegram with prepaid answer to yourself, you may judge of my spiritual state. The finances have much brightened; and if KIDNAPPED keeps on as it has begun, I ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... be sent by mail, in a letter carefully sealed and directed, and prepaid by stamps. It is advisable always to have the letter registered. Letters can be ...
— The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various
... more good than all its orthodox preachers, teachers, editors and politicians together at no financial cost to yourself by ordering booklets at our special rates: six copies, $1.00; twenty-five copies, $3.00, prepaid, and selling them to workers at our retail price, 25 cents for one copy. As we make no profit and do no bookkeeping, cash should accompany ...
— Communism and Christianism - Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View • William Montgomery Brown |
