Sentence examples for by stamps from inspiring English sources

Inlaid decoration was also executed during the early part of this period, the pattern often being engraved by stamps rather than incised freehand.

A strange fate for the boy I remembered, who was fascinated by the life around him — by stamps, by geography, by London and New York, of which he talked as if he had already been there.

Not surprisingly, Hill's proposals rapidly gained strong support: popular agitation for the "penny post" overcame initial political disinterest, and the uniform rate and a system of prepayment by stamps were introduced in 1840.

Obsessed in equal measure by stamps and women, this FDR is a contradictory figure, seen through the eyes of his distant cousin Daisy Laura Linneyy), whose company he craves and physical attentions he demands in darkly comic fashion.

The regime inadvertently made following that trail even easier: senior officials typically sign each document as the papers cross their desks; in the ministries, these autographs are accompanied by stamps identifying the signatory.

The Indefinite Leave stickers affixed in our passports were nothing much to look at — just our photographs surrounded by stamps and seals — yet we gazed at them for hours on end, the way you might at a picture of the baby you birthed upside down in a burning house after a difficult seven-year pregnancy.

Some modern pewter work is formed by stamping presses.

Team members often have to spend hours packing the slopes by stamping down the snow.

They kill snakes by stamping or flailing them against the ground, sometimes dropping them from aloft.

Mr. Jarka voted by stamping his ballot sheet with an ink-stained toe.

And above all this, the austerity measures, by stamping out demand, have prolonged the recovery.