He threw his clothes into a couple of portmanteaux, and when these had been called for by an Expressman he emptied his pockets and counted up his ready money.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
Nothing was known of him at all, save the story that he had killed his partner in a gambling-house away back somewhere in '51. He was shunned and feared by all, and he approached and spoke to no one except the butcher, the grocer, and Expressman; and to these only briefly, on business.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
Mrs. Douce, I say, not knowing this, opened the door for the Expressman in a great flurry of excitement.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop