Which preposition to use with package
He told one of my friends that one of his principal functions was to accompany Madame Waddington to all the charity sales, carrying a package of women's chemises under his arm.
John Randolph was standing before her with a package in his hands.
Letters and packages from the folks back home are the American soldiers' greatest comfort on the battle front.
He was in the greatest possible glee in the afternoon, at being sent with another boy, Jim, to carry a package to Mr. Pond's.
All the women lecturers are to become tea-totallers, and go before their audiences laden with packages for sale, in lots to suit, for cash.
McCready came up behind her and fumbled among the packages on the sledge.
The blessed weed!" cried the old woman, clutching the package with trembling fingers.
That was just what Mother Carey was wondering when Nancy spoke, and as the result of several hours' reflection she went out for a walk just before dusk and made her way towards The Cedars with a package under her cloak.
Mary waited, rigid as a statue, until she heard the front gate close, then, the last defence down, she sprang to the dressing tabletearing off the paper from the package as a puppy dog might tear the covering from a bone.
Just before dinner that night there came a knock on Betty's door, and Virgie Smith, one of Ada's friends, thrust a package at Bobby, who had answered the tap.
I cannot say what I might of the child of the same parents, but had Giuseppe seen this package by any accident, it might have brought thee into great trouble!" "Nay, I fear not thy brother, nor any else," said the daughter of the prison-keeper, with the firmness of innocence; "he could do me no harm for dealing kindly by a relative.
It was only when he was bidding Mrs. May good night at her hotel door that, with a schoolboy air, he pulled a small package out of his pocket.
He rolled the package into his slicker and tied down the slicker behind the cantle of his saddle.
"Well, you don't want to be carrying packages about," said John Wingfield, Sr.
"We've got to go, of course, but I've been thinkingdon't you hate the idea of being hurled along in a train, and suddenly shot into the city again, like a package through a tube?" "Hate it?
The lieutenant who brought the package aboard me said there would be a spy to try, and a lugger to catch.
He counted the package before me, and then put it into his pocket.
He said, "Take this package around to Earle & Prew's express and hurry back, as I have another errand for you to do."
I did look for the package among Grizel's things.
Throwing an imaginary package over his shoulder, he staggered under it across the floor.
Can we not take the money and send it to the owners, and suffer the other matter to rest at least for the present, until we conclude how to manage it?" "Carl," replied the doctor, as he pushed the package toward the young man, "there is only one right way, and that is to become truly sorry for wrongdoing, and cheerfully and bravely make retribution to all parties you have injured.
" Coronado put the package behind him with one hand and held off his uncle with the other.