They had no clothes now but what they stood in, and only one thing on the sled they could have lived withouttheir money, a packet of trading stores.

"Here is the message from M. de Saint-Pierre," concluded Washington, drawing a sealed packet from an inner pocket.

But now that He is not present with His bodily presencenow, medicine and advice and other good things are just the packets in which He wraps up the healing He sends; and the wisest doctor is but the messenger who carries to the sick as much of healing and help as the Great Doctor sees fit to send.

He then inquired who among his trusty warrior's would volunteer to take the packet to the dwelling of Cundincus,[*] the Chief of the Narragansetts.

The people of that neighborhood treated us with great kindness, and we presently took the packet for Elizabeth city, whence I proceeded to Norfolk, Baltimore, and so home.

The captain was a duck, With a packet on his back; And when the ship began to move.

My father, examining the packet with a minute care, waved his request aside.

One drops a packet at Lombard-street, and in twenty-four hours a friend in Cumberland gets it as fresh as if it came in ice.

She wished to get the little packet into which she had made Gray's letters months ago, dreading to look even at the folded outsides of them, tucking them away on the high shelf of her dress-closet at the Pap Himes boarding-house, and trying to forget them.

This communication has been delayed by a confident belief that the answer referred to would have been received early enough to have admitted of its submission to you in sufficient season for the final action of Congress at its present session, and is now induced by an apprehension that although the packet by which it was intended to be sent is hourly expected, its arrival may, nevertheless, be delayed until after your adjournment.

"Please, sir, can you inform me if a gentleman called Captain Truck one that sails the packets between New-York and England, is staying at the Wigwam at present.

Looking over the late Packets of Letters which have been sent to me, I found the following one.

She sailed from Dunkirk on May 1, 1777, and the next week was back with a British packet as a prize.

"What is there in these letters," he touched the packet before him, "but passion and jealousy?

That doctrine I shall maintain to my dying day; but what need of a steamer, when we have packets like palaces?" "I did not know, captain, that you entertained so hearty a respect for Great Britainit is encouraging, really, to find so generous a feeling toward the old island in one of her descendants.

It was Cornelius de Witt's letter to his godson, exhorting him to burn the packet without opening it.

He passed a packet across the table.

Having secured a passage on board a canal packet about to start, I at once embarked, and in a few hours after was running up the Erie Canal at the rate of six miles an hour, the boat being towed by four light horses of high mettle.

As Patsy peered in at the man West was engaged in deliberately examining packet after packet of papers, evidently striving to find the missing stock certificates.