20 Metaphors for packing
They all stopped at the Howard House, naturally drinking, treating their friends and each other, they all discussed among themselves the reward and their packs of hounds, each one saying that his pack was the best.
Tump Pack became almost a mythical figure in Niggertown.
His scant pack was a light weight for even
Monday, December 12.The pack was a little looser this morning; there was a distinct long swell apparently from N.W.
If he only knew in which pack was the bone of contention he would certainly lighten his burden.
The pack is a sunless place as a rule; this morning we had bright sunshine for a few hours, but later the sky clouded over from the north again, and now it is snowing dismally.
(The pack, of course, is the bundle of sin, which is removed by the blood of the cross. 1678.)
The leading pack in the Kingdom for the last sixty years, at any rate, has been the Carlisle when in the hands of Mr. J. C. Carrick, who was famous both for the sport he showed and for his breed of Otterhound, so well represented at all the important shows.
"A savage pack, like their mistress," was Count Nobili's thought as his eyes tried to pierce into the growing darkness.
Quite a decent little pack, faute de mieux; and Bobby Amphlett, who hunts them, is a great pal of mine.
The "Ranelagh Pack" is a most useful form of "luggage.
His average packing was two hundred and fifty pounds.
However, our departure was very nigh, and packing is an excellent cure for disappointment, though we were interrupted in that one morning with a request to write "something" in the visitors' book.
Pork-packing was his trade back east.
'Packing' is a valid excuse for anything, from forgetting a dinner to declining a tennis party, and the tempers of husbands are judged leniently.
The final packing, effected amid a hungry crowd of little piping fiends, was a veritable nightmare, and yesterday morning we rescued our mangled remains from the enemy, and, having paid off our boats, hurriedly clambered on to the ponies which had comelate, as usualfrom Palhallan to convey what was left by the mosquitoes to Gulmarg.
The taper of blow-off cocks is an important element in their construction; as, if the taper be too great, the plugs will have a continual tendency to rise, which, if the packing be slack, will enable grit to get between the faces, while, if the taper be too little, the plug will be liable to jam, and a few times grinding will sink it so far through the shell that the waterways will no longer correspond.
Packing is a very laborious business, and very few Americans either care about doing it, or have the patience necessary to it.
In mountains, over deserts and plains of sand, where forage is scant, and water only to be had at long intervals, then the pack is a necessity, and can be used with profit.
Packing and unpacking, and the harassing "customs" are the worst features.