6185 examples of packing in sentences

I was about to tell the men on the wagon that they had made a mistake, when my mother, acting darkly wise, told them to bring their load in; she had them unpack the box, and quickly there was evolved from the boards, paper, and other packing material a beautiful, brand-new, upright piano.

She had been so busy in packing baking powder, tobacco, currants, and things of that description into a box for the fisher from Long Island Sound that she had not heard the approach of Jervis Ferrars, who wore list slippers, and so made but little noise in walking.

It would hardly be extravagant to call Science the art of packing knowledge.

A half-hour later Millie was on her knees packing a trunk, and her husband was telephoning to the drug-store for a sponge-bag and a cure for seasickness.

There are but few of our party who are adepts in the art of packing, for verily it is an art acquired by long practice, and we look with admiration upon our packers as they "throw the rope" with such precision, and with great skill and rapidity tighten the cinch and gird the load securely upon the back of the broncho.

[Illustration: PACKING A RECALCITRANT MULE.] Thursday, August 18.I rode on ahead of the party from Mr. Hartzell's ranch, stopping at Radersburg for dinner and riding through a snow storm to Gallatin City, where I remained over night with Major Campbell.

Some delay occurring in packing our horses, Lieutenant Doane and the escort went ahead, and we did not again see them until we reached our night camp.

The packing has become dry and by loosening it up and applying oil you may remedy the trouble until such time as you can repack it with fresh packing.

The packing has become dry and by loosening it up and applying oil you may remedy the trouble until such time as you can repack it with fresh packing.

There are other causes that would prevent the pump working besides lack of packing and obstructions under the valves.

You will find packing between the two halves of the yoke.

Take out a thin sheet of this packing, but don't take out too much, as you are liable then to get them too tight and they may stick and cause your eccentrics to slip.

It will, therefore, make your engine bump, and make it very difficult to hold the packing in stuffing box.

The chimming or packing in box should be cut so as to touch the journal at both ends of box, but not in the center or between these two points.

His colored valet was busy in one of the rooms packing his master's clothing into two traveling bags.

"Well, Dave," said the captain, gayly, "we will have a fine trip South, I fancy; but don't hurry with that packing.

Rachel was happy and busy, packing up food and clothes for them to take on the journey.

I wasn't packing a gun.

This observer holds that adequate pressure is unobtainable by packing the foot, and, to obtain it, removes the wall from heel to heel, much after the manner of preparing the foot for the Charlier shoe, so that the whole of the weight is taken by the sole and the frog.

The last thirty years have seen the rise of cheese making as a distinctive factory industry; of the manufacture of oleo-margarine, wire nails, Bessemer steel, cotton-seed oil, coke, canned goods; of the immense mills of Minneapolis, where 10,000,000 barrels of flour are made annually, and of the meat dressing and packing business for which Chicago and Kansas City are famous.

[Illustration: A typical prairie sod house] Over this region, the Dakotas, Montana, Kansas, and Nebraska, wander herds of cattle, the slaughtering and packing of which have founded new branches of industry.

Efficient inspection of meat-packing establishments was provided, at a cost of $3,000,000 a year.

Chicago, Republican conventions; in 1832; in 1840; labor congress; convention of '69; fire; meat packing; Bimetallic League.

"Gregg put in the last packing this morning, and all we are waiting for now is four o'clock this afternoon.

A Yankee will start off with his household gods, and seek a new home in the wilderness, with less fuss than a Cockney would make about packing up a basket of grub to go and pic-nic in Richmond Park.

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