Tom, too, had a large packet of letters, which he read with great glee.
The wife came in, and he hid away the packet and slunk off.
The fastening had become insecure, and, trembling at her audacity, Jane carried the packet to her lover, begging him to return it to her when he had possessed himself of its secret.
But now we must get hold of him at once, and get the packetfrom him.
When I had finished, he fetched a packet of tobacco from his pocket.
I rode boldly up to the great entrance door, and handed the packet to the sentinel.
I had not got out of the country when we a packet came, bearing fresh commands.
I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had.
Striking a light, I found that thepacket was addressed to the Governor.
I think I see your Lordship throw the heavy packetfrom you with a 'pshaw!
After having attentively looked at us, one after the other, his hands resting one on each end of his sabre, he drew from his bosom a packet of little khatas, and had them distributed amongst us by one of his men.
After a certain form of prayer, we take a packet of horses which we throw up into the air, the wind carries them away, and by the power of Buddha they are then changed into real horses, which offer themselves to travellers.
When Harry remembered the packet of papers placed in his hand, which was on the following morning, he read them.
No, I was sent for to the chief clerk's office and given a packet of letters for copying.
Then he threw upon the table a small packet of papers.
It happened, a packet of notes to be paid into the bank.
She put the packet of poems beside it and the note-book also.
Now, however in the wide world would my packet come in here, Allan?
So Thad placed the sealed packet in the safe of a gentleman whom Allan chanced to know right well, and who promised to open negotiations with the robbed bank, while the scouts were up in the woods.
Their bonnets with bright flowers, their velvet cloaks and silk dresses, seemed better suited for park or promenade than for a damppacket deck.
The reader will not too gravely regard the little circumstance that about this time the triply-enclosed packet of five letters temporarily disappeared from my bureau.
In the very extremity of want, I had recourse again, and yet again, to the little packet in the case--the five letters.
I went just as far as my money would carry me, and then the captain of the packetput me off at a little wood landing above," came the reply.
I shall miss the packet of the 24th, but I am told she is a slow ship and that I shall probably find the letters reach home quite as soon by the next.
I intend sending this letter by the packet of the 24th inst.
I will leave this open to add if anything occurs between this and next packet day.
Passengers traveled on the canal in packet boats, as they were called.
At Johnstown, west of the Alleghenies, the traveler once more took a canal packetto Pittsburg.
Walking on the roof when the packet was crowded was impossible.
Three horses abreast could drag a packet boat some four miles an hour.
Columbia on the Susquehanna, and then by canal packet up that river and up the Juniata to the railroad at the foot of the mountains.
So soon as the secretary had departed, the Emperor snatched the packet from St. Just and then, for the first time, became aware of his identity.
And he held out a little packet that contained the miniature of Halima, together with a paper on which was inscribed in Arabic, "News of him to whom you gave this, and of your father, from whom the bearer has a message.
On removing this, what first met his gaze was a small packet carefully secured in oilskin.
He was anxious to put the packet in a place of safety for future examination, when he should be alone; for now, he expected his wife to come out every moment, to inquire the meaning of the disturbance; she must have heard the shots.
When he reached his study, he took the packet from his pocket and examined the outside.
He took up the packet for the Emperor, and placed it in his pocket.
Also of Tremeau's breach of trust in having opened the packetand sent a copy of its contents to the English Government.
He handed the packet to the Emperor, who immediately asked how it had come into his possession.
On leaving here, you will proceed to Ministry of Marine with a letter I shall give you, authorizing and instructing the Minister to give you a packet of papers.
This she sealed with her own seal and handed, with the packet of papers, to St. Just.
Thirty miles of lake and four miles of Ticonderoga Creek they passed and the packet was delivered in four days and three hours since leaving.
He opened his satchel and took out a paper, but Rolf caught sight of another packetaddressed to General Hampton.
I think that packetin there is meant for me," remarked Rolf.
Persuaded that the United States will give their consent that you should receive the cross of the institution of Military Merit, I send you, in the packet addressed to M.
Traynor, the purser, whether he believed or disbelieved his own story that he had passed that packet down to Loring, could truthfully declare that Loring had displayed most mysterious and unaccountable interest in it.
So there was a little packet in the purser's safe, was there?
The purser tells me Escalante gave him a little packet belonging to her--very valuable, which he ordered kept in the safe until their agent should call for it at 'Frisco.
He was thinking, too, of Pancha and that little packet in the purser's safe, when suddenly that officer himself came popping up the narrow stairway and poked his unprotected head into the whistling wind.
Now, what on earth could that small packet contain, and was it likely that the valuables were any more valuable than those snatched from his saddle-bags the night of the assault at Gila Bend?
There was the packet left by the orderly to be called for by officers arriving on the Yuma stage, addressed in clerkly hand, but Sancho, alas!
Of the packet and its contents she knew next to nothing.
We may have to," said the adjutant-general to himself, as he turned back to his desk and to a packet of papers and dispatches from Gate City.
Been to Ramsey, sir, and stationed three men on the quay to see that nobody leaves the island by the Cumberland packet that sails at midnight.
Before eleven they were passing the town, and could see the lights of the Cumberland packet as she lay by the quay.
It was the first of three bells that were rung on the Cumberland packet immediately before it set sail.
The Whitehaven packet leaves Ramsey to-night, capt'n," he said.
My men were detailed to clean up the blessed packet afterwards.
Here, sir," said Poole, and gave into his hands a considerable packet sealed in several places.
He drew a packetof documents from his pocket, and spreading out a letter from Sir Arthur Falloden on the table, proceeded to deal with the points in it seriatim.
Trix and I got a packet of Banbury cakes at Didcot," reported Roger, in triumph, showing a greasy paper.
An immediate reward of a deed of benevolence, is a thing sensibly heavenly; and the five-shilling tickets were paid for as if for a packet on the counter.
From the time of the flying of these telegrams, up to the tap of Victor's knuckle on her bed-room door next morning, she was not more reflectively conscious than a packet travelling to its destination by pneumatic tube.
His master had a packet of papers ready, easy for the pocket.
This was a packet which had evidently been held against the side of the chimney by the stick.
He put the packet safely in his pocket and, hauling the cabinet up on his back staggered up the stairs with it.
Enclosing thepacket in a stout envelope, which he directed, he went out, and dropped it into the post-office at the opposite corner of Crosse Street.
Had a midnight plunderer got into the Bank, he would not have contented himself with one packet of deeds.
It was made known in the Bank that a packet of deeds was missing; but full particulars were not given.
A packet of deeds belonging to one of their clients has been lost--has disappeared at least in some unaccountable manner; and this, I expect, must have given rise to the rumour.
And all from the loss of a single packet of deeds?
I shall write to you from London, Meta, and I shall write you quite a packet when I am on board ship.
A packet of deeds has been mislaid; or is missing in some way," resumed George.
It is curious, missing a packet of deeds of that value from its place, that he should not have feared it might be missing altogether.
She jumped off the chair again, and George produced the packet confided to him by Mrs. Verrall.
The City of Leeds, a powerfully engined little packet which had been on the Hamburg-Harwich run before the war, furnished the only glaring instance of deliberate bad faith.
Hamburg would sell themselves for a cake of toilet soap or a sixpenny packet of biscuits.
I've figured it out, down to a packet of assorted size safety pins.
As they rode uptown together, happily, Ella opened her bag and laid a little packet of telegrams and letters in Fanny's lap.
The packet was simply a long letter, folded thickly in several wrappers and tied with a string.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
