Packages

Examples

• The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When salt is sifted it is ready for packing in bags or packages suitable for shipment to the consumer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He picked up the packages. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The complete, wrapped packages of five slabs slide along a little runway into boxes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For a while, as packages were small, they were taken to the canal bridge, a board lifted from the floor, and the package dropped onto a boat as it passed under. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Help Mr. Wardle's servant to put the packages into the cart, and then ride on with him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Their packages were preparing; they were to leave in a few days. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Two of these packages made a load for an ordinary Mexican mule, and three for the larger ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All goods were put up in compact packages of about one hundred pounds each, suitable for loading on pack mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The United States, with its 76,000,000 of people, found it necessary to use in its mail service hundreds of thousands of mail pouches, having locks for securing packages of valuable matter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the lard packing room there is much automatic machinery, with which the various sized packages of lard are weighed out. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After they had started, the tents and cooking utensils had to be made into packages, so that they could be lashed to the backs of the mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At last, she stopped at our door, and presented two heavy packages for Mrs. Wilson. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• These are employed in the transportation of letters and small packages from building to building or between parts of the same building. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Old Burcke, the landlord of the lodgings, came out, then Francis, with more packages--final packages--then Major William--Burcke wanted to kiss him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He came out, throwing some packages into the car. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. Weller in reply pointed to various packages which he had arranged, as neatly as he could, in a corner of the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The other was a very small, dark fellow, with his hat pushed back and several packages under his arm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He put some packages down by the bed, on the floor. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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