1032 examples of packet in sentences

I accordingly sat down, and wrote a full account of all that had occurred, and folding up the packet, hurried to the opposite quarter of the town where Shunah Shoo lived.

I immediately held up the packet, and soon afterwards a cord was let down from the same lattice to the ground.

" The Father went to the writing-table, where he tied up and sealed the packet.

You've seen it?" The Father Superior locked away the packet and stood up.

He opened his desk and took out a small packet of papers, some of which he read listlessly.

The colonel handed him a small packet of letters.

"He knows that Drouet was killed while searching for a packet of letters, which would have compromised most seriously a great lady; he knows that M. Vantine was killed while endeavouring to open the drawer after its secret had been revealed to him by the maid of that same great lady, who was hoping to get a reward for them; Morel met death directly at the hands of Crochard because he was a traitor and deserved it."

Here in America, your police regulations are not so complete; but I fancy that, even here, he would have had difficulty in marketing this one," and he unfolded the last packet, and held up to the light a rose-diamond which seemed to me as large as a walnut, and a-glow with lovely colour.

"My dear Lester," he said, "he knew that the game was up the instant he opened the first packet.

And then I remembered the slow flush which had crept into Crochard's cheeks as he opened that first packet!

Two days later, the director of the Louvre discovered a packet upon his desk.

" All this time the nurse had been standing with the quiet small packet which was the storm centre of preparation lying like a cocoon or a giant seed-pod against her bosom.

"I 'lowed you might get lost," bantered the young fellow, not offering to carry the packet as they trudged away side by side.

The Lord du Lude, who lay without the Plessis, had the first news of the arrival of the courier, with the letters concerning the battle of Nancy; he commanded the courier to deliver him the packet, and as he was a great favorite of the King's he durst not refuse him.

By break of day the next morning, the Lord du Lude knocked at the door next to the King's chamber, and, it being opened, he delivered in the packet from the Lord of Craon and other officers.

A large packet of 'Text Books'left for that purpose by Norrish, if the truth were known whose covers were the same color as those of the 'Fruits', attracted Mr. Outram's attention, and he took off some of the brown paper wrapper, but found the goods unseizable.

Now I trudge to streets far distant, Humbly in your queue to stand, Till the grocer's tired assistant Dumps the packet in my hand.

The next event to chronicle in Lewis Carroll's Life is the publication, by Messrs. Macmillan, of "A Tangled Tale," a series of mathematical problems which had originally appeared in the Monthly Packet.

In addition to the problems themselves, the author added their correct solutions, with criticisms on the solutions, correct or otherwise, which the readers of the Monthly Packet had sent in to him.

The next morning a royal messenger brought out a packet of letters to Furness Hall, and Harry, mounting with his father and the little body of horse at the hall, rode toward London.

He had a packet of Algerian cigarettes (twenty for fivepence), and appeared chiefly concerned to smoke them all before the evening was out.

All he says is falsethe book he has just read, the play he is writing, the woman who loves him,... he buys a packet of bonbons in the streets and eats them, and it is false.

I found a large packet of letters which I instantly destroyed.

" Late one evening, a packet of letters, just arrived by the English mail, was handed to Mynheer Von Kapell, a merchant of Hamburgh.

Inside a cover of yellow oiled silk he found first a certificate of deposit for three thousand pounds, and beneath it a packet of letters.

1032 examples of  packet  in sentences