"These are from the famous necklace which the Grand Duke inherited from his grandmother," he said, calling our attention to a little pile of marvellous gems in one of the last packets.

" Simmonds and Pigot rolled up the packets carefully and placed them in the valise, while I sat watching them in a kind of daze.

" "Well," continued Godfrey, "after I got the duplicates, I rolled them up in the cotton packets, and placed them back in the drawer, being careful to put the Mazarin at the bottom, where I had found it.

There was a boy on board, a steerage passenger, who had been back and forth several times on this Liverpool line of packets.

He ordered us to set out immediately, and gave us commission to open all his letters and packets which we might meet by the way, that thereby we might ascertain whether the Duke was dead or alive.

The officers of these packets were the king's of the day, and when any one of them strayed up town he attracted as much attention as a major general of the regulars.

There were also garden implements including spraying tools, cutters, flowerpots, seed packets and organic manures.

Each soldier had three days' provisions and six packets of cartridges.

There were packets of tea and sugar, several loaves of bread, and a number of gaily-coloured tins, containing such luxuries as corned beef, condensed milk, tongue, potted meat, and golden syrup.

" "No, no," whispered Betty, stealing her hand lovingly into her sister's, as she pulled her gently into the room; "father has the dispatches; these are but the long-looked-for letters from New York, Pamela, and I'll wager there is something from Josiah among father's packets.

He would not let me have my razors, or any of the packets of papers or my money belt.

Every train now carries fog signals, which are detonating packets, which are fixed upon the rails in advance or in the rear of a train which, whether from getting off the rails or otherwise, is stopped upon the line, and which are exploded by the wheels of any approaching train.

The mysterious packets, placed there so secretly, were letters from the Jacobites of the neighbourhood to each other; and the little figure in green was a boy who acted as messenger for them.

Packets to Calais, Dieppe, and Margatenecessity on her last leg, and luxury on the fantastic toethe wasted mind and famished visage beside hoyden mirth and bloated luxury.

The next stage of the prosecution was the seizure of our book packets and letters in the Post-office by the Tory Government.

There is precious little space for those pressed flowers, time-yellowed gowns, and ribbon-bound packets that figured so prominently in the days of attics.

" He put two little paper packets down upon the table at their elbows, and then, with three more bows to my mother, he walked from the room.

They were tired, some of them, after a long march, but they grinned back cheery answers to my greetings, and scrambled merrily for the few packets of cigarettes I tossed to them.

Former mail-packets, swift racers of the waves, had descended to the humble service of transport boats.

He does not think it needful to supply anything in its place, for he says 'it concludes well enough as it is.' Mr. Strahan had the right, as a member of Parliament, to frank all letters and packets.

Thousands of small packets are deposited here, which, to the eye of affluence, might seem the very refuse of beggary itself.

But as I know you interest yourself much in the subject, and read with partiality my attempts to amuse you, I will continue to throw my observations on paper as regularly as I have been accustomed to do, and I hope, ere long, to be the bearer of the packets myself.

In 1820 he died himself, leaving behind him seven packets of manuscript and twelve folio volumes of correspondence.

On the following day she lays three packets of wool beside the path near the house to signify that she is now a woman.

It was filled with packets of papers placed on shelves, and tied neatly with tape.