Packet

Examples

• Mr Barretti was informed, that the weekly packet-boat from Lisbon brings, one week with another, more than ?50,000 in gold to England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Can you identify him as your fellow-passenger on board the packet, or speak to his conversation with your daughter? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The young man was silent: he had not opened the packet in his hand. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Introduces the next The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Another packet arrived; she too was detained, and before we sailed a fourth was expected. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• After that, Mr. Brooke remembered that there was a packet which he had omitted to send off from the Grange, and he bade everybody hurriedly good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The packet not reclaimed before the ringing of the bell to-night, you cannot buy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I know where she kept that packet she had--and can steal in and out of her chamber like Iachimo--like Iachimo? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• After a while and when it might be prudent, if you should want to slip Tom, Jack, or Richard on board a foreign packet-boat, there he is--ready. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And then Caddy Jellyby came down, and Caddy brought such a packet of domestic news that it gave us abundant occupation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He kissed the packet, put it in his pocket, and said in a voice of emotion, O, Mr. Clym, how good you are to me! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The packet of papers fell on the floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The man who brought you this packet and possesses these proofs, is now waiting at my house to be bought off. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On board of the packet-ship just now referred to, sir, and on the same occasion. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I've heard, said Mrs. Smyth, that there have been men down, warning all the packet captains against a man and woman, with a little boy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Other packets had missed me, and I had received none for a long time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The sentiments of the head of the office being now so effectively made known, Mr. Stockdale soon learnt it by the return of two packets. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Certain small packets were made and given to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Finally I heard a click, the broad green door swung open, and inside I had a glimpse of a number of paper packets, each tied, sealed, and inscribed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the present time, steam-packets are constantly crossing from New York to Liverpool in eleven days. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Margate packets were sailing every day, filled with men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As one of these packets contained characteristic notes from the party, we will rob an imaginary mail, and read them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I have three packets still left, and you may confidently rely on my spending the whole evening over them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Editor: Yvonne