On the eve of the decisive day, Maria did not sleep all night; she was packing and tying up linen and dresses.
He helped the young lady and her maid to their seats, and packing away the bundles and the dressing-case, took up the reins, and the horses flew forward into the darkness of the night.
Here, then, Markheim drew in a packing case before the cabinet, and began to search among the keys.
For," I said, "suppose you should by oversight neglect to put in the leather packing between the piston and the motorite, we might have an explosion.
When a man has the 'jumps' he can't stay long in one place, but his life after taking the disease is one continual round of packing up and unpacking.
Then we have been working all day to make packing houses rich.
Sensing the urgency in Astro's voice, Roger began packing up his equipment and in a few moments the three boys had their gear slung over their shoulders and were slogging through water already knee-deep.
Roger stood up and began packing a small spaceman's bag.
The two men, huddled against a jumble of packing cases in the cargo hold of the Annie Jones, made careful preparations.
As there is considerable art in packing brittle hollow-ware, as glass, china, &c.
A waterproof packing cloth which does not break may be made by covering the fabric with the following varnish:--2 lbs.
A man accustomed to packing such articles may be readily procured at any glassworks or china warehouse for a trifling consideration.
The following circumstance related by Dr Garrod[171] in a lecture at King's College Hospital leads to the inference that the custom of packing snuff in lead is not free from danger.
Had you not better see to the packing of your trunks?
Very much, I hope," replied her mother, pausing for a moment in her task of packing the neat piles of linen and underclothing into as small a compass as possible.
But the sailors say the tobacco was emptied out of the packing and covered over with ore.
That is very true," said the commander; "the packing is the only thing we saved.
A pucker of worry appeared between the girl's frank brows and she fell swiftly to folding and packing the rug.
He himself directed the packing of it, to see that no store-label was included in the parcel; and a quarter of an hour later he delivered it by cab to the dvornik at the hospital gate for Doctor Semianoff.
You know better than I do what tools we shall need; you are far more handy at packing a mule than I am; and besides all that, it will give you an opportunity to see the professor.
Put plenty of packing on top, and with a darning needle and stout twine sew on a cover of stout cotton cloth.
A lady who commenced raising thoroughbred poultry last season writes me that she proposes to sell eggs for hatching this season, and asks for information about advertising, packing eggs, etc.
When he emigrated, with his studio traps filling half a dozen packing cases, none of the boys bothered to see him off.
John Castellan went on packinghis papers, his face grey, and his features hard-set.
And then he began to collect the papers that were scattered about the big drawing-table, sorting them out and folding them up and then taking other papers and plans from the drawers and packing them into a little black dispatch box.
Well, when he had been out all day be got a deer, and was packing it home at night when he struck a belt of thick timber.
Still, it don't count for much, and I do some packing occasionally.
For this reason, it will doubtless be wise for a cooperative commonwealth to own and run packing houses, butcher shops, pharmacies, bakeries, and to produce and distribute milk and ice.
I refer to such industries as packing houses, butcher shops, pharmacies, and the production and distribution of milk, ice, and bread.
Now, it is very true that nothing is more offensive to the mind than the practice of mechanically packing into metrical successions, as if packing a portmanteau, names without meaning or significance to the feelings.
This he accomplished by packing the piston and the stuffing-box, as it is called, through which the piston-rod works, with hemp.
Ice is now used extensively for a variety of œconomical purposes, such as packing salmon, cooling liquors, &c.
Miss Polly Brewster resumed her final packing in a fume of rage at herself.
Word had come down from her that she was busypacking her things.
And with the more respectable class of poor who occupy the better kind of tenement-houses, the packing of human beings in those great caravansaries is one of the worst evils of this city.
Half an hour later Nell Wiggin was packing her few garments in a suitcase, while Roberta tied up the precious books.
Time is passing and we have much packing to do if we are to return in another day or two.
I have packing to do and I have to see this gentleman down in the country.
If this had not been one of his Napoleonic mornings, no doubt the sudden arrival of his old friend, Mr. Peters, whom he had imagined at his home in Putney packing for his trip to America, would have suggested nothing to him.
At last she escaped to her own room, where most of her packing was still to do.
