so much so, that some specimens of Cactus senilis, said to be a thousand years old, which were sent a few years since to Kew, from South America, were obliged to be packed in cotton, with all the care of the most delicate jewellery, to preserve them during transport.

He fought the Indians in early days and packed a gun for the outlawsand to-day, gentlemen, he owns a farm as big as Spokane County.

The little slide of surface snow, which had twisted across the surface of the old snows of the winter, had been gaining in weight, in momentum, picking up claws of shrubbery, teeth of stone, and eating through layer after layer of the old snow, packed hard as ice.

He threw Diablo and turned around and picked you up as if you was a baby and packed you over here.

The house was packed.

The theatre is packed every night.

Your play, the one thing you dreamed about, produced in one of the greatest cities in the world, and a packed house to listen to it, people applauding all the time.

Then she packed them away in a case of thick and stiff buckskin.

My life at home is as little worth telling as that of any other in the same social position, and I pass it by, merely stating that, after proper preparation, I was packed off to Bedford School for a few years.

Having scrutinized them with the minutest observation, Jervis packed them up, and, turning to Mr. Johnson, said, "Mr. Johnson, I will show you how the trick was done.

One of the large baskets used to hold cotton was packed full of these provisions.

What goods they found themselves unable to carry away were packed in the warehouse.

When she now had packed him in the blanket again, and the fright at finding the unconscious Erick and the fear of his taking cold had passed a little, then it came into her mind that the people of the parsonage did not know what had become of him, and that they too would be anxious about him.

A safe rule is to keep all bottles and boxes containing poisonous substances securely bottled or packed, and carefully labeled with the word POISON plainly written in large letters across the label.

The poor things were packed like spoons below the deck.

Will, Frank and Allen brought up the rear, carrying the small valises or suitcases the girls had packed.

I packed it all away in a waterproof iron box, which I had specially ordered for the purpose, and buried it in the hole that I had dug outside.

And the bullets buzzed like bees; But he jumped for me, and shouldered me, Though a shot brought him once to his knees; But he staggered up, and packed me off, With a dozen stumbles and falls, Till safe in our lines he drapped us both,

The elderly man rose and packed her neatly in her plaid, and she thanked him.

They went the whole length of the promenade deck, as if they were reviewing the passengers, bundled and packed in their chairs, and the passengers looked at them both with so much interest that the child made Margaret come all the way back again.

In a few minutes I had packed my scanty possessions, and I was hastening with them down the corridor when a chill struck suddenly through my heart at the thought of my cousin Sibylle.

First, the poet's thought is often obscure, or else so extremely subtle that language expresses it imperfectly, Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped.

Junius Gholston, a negro boy who had intended to go to Nashville to attend Fisk University, reconsidered the matter, packed away his good clothes, put on overalls, and shipped down the river as a roustabout instead.

The coyote itselfa tunnel of fifty feet dug into the solid rock of the mountain and terminating in a chamber packed with explosiveswas closed by masses of broken rock, rammed tight, and MacDonald showed his companion where the electric wire passed to the fuse within.

They were standing in a small room packed with machinery-old-fashioned machinery used for rock cutting, polishing stones, and mounting specimens.