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Example sentences for "packman"

Lexicographically close words:
packets; packhorse; packhorses; packing; packings; packmen; packs; packsaddle; packt; packthread
  1. Here's Andrew the packman in the lane, with such shawls, Martha!

  2. Bess dragged Martha by the arm to the top of the cinder-hill, where they could see the pit-girls clustering round the packman in the lane.

  3. Then a packman came by, going from a town south of the wold to a town north of it, and he had news.

  4. The packman mounted his pony and went away through the grey day, the few flakes of snow.

  5. The packman had his pony shod and was ready to depart.

  6. Ales herself had a pretty fair collection of useful articles in the shape of pots, bowls, and mugs, stowed away in the barn, having added to her store whenever the packman came his rounds.

  7. Davy plucked at his mother's skirts and reminded her that he was to be finally breeched when the packman came round, and he was not disappointed.

  8. The packman let me have the cloth for the stockings I have knitted, look you.

  9. But the half-crown weekly payments have a habit of lengthening themselves out till the packman has made fifty per cent.

  10. When he remembered he had been a packman in England it was exceedingly fine.

  11. Packman Jim lurched against the speaker ere the words were well out of his mouth.

  12. A packman whom I thawed yesterday at my kitchen fire tells me that last Sabbath only the Auld Lichts held service.

  13. That very night twelve months ago the packman was murdered at Broken Buss, and Easie Pettie hanged herself on the stump of a tree.

  14. The packman unstrapped his wooden leg, and, with some groaning, for the process evidently caused him discomfort, removed his great shaggy beard.

  15. It's wonderfu' what bits o' gossip a packman can pick up on his roonds.

  16. I nudged the packman with my elbow and at once he led the way up the High Street.

  17. When we came to the inn the packman led the way through a flagged passage into a garden at the back.

  18. The packman led the way and halted before a richly ornate stone that rested on a pedestal below the great Gothic window.

  19. Once during the night I awoke and peering through the shadows could discern the figure of the minister on his bracken couch, and, with hands clasped round his bent knees, the packman sitting beside him.

  20. I did as I was requested and I was able to reassure the packman that the man's heart was beating regularly and strongly, although somewhat slowly.

  21. One hardly expects to come across a packman who reads the classics.

  22. As the last of the troopers swung round the corner, the packman donned his bonnet, and sitting down spat after the departing cavalcade.

  23. We were approaching another cottage on the outskirts of the town, and once again Hector assumed the role of the packman and tapped at the door.

  24. I have often heard that an old packman makes a good merchant--I am willing to try if an old merchant can make a good packman.

  25. And pray, what has this packman got to do wi' what goes on in our family?

  26. Are you akin to that packman with a squint in his eye, as used to bring th' Irish linen?

  27. The packman turned saint too and left his bones on Girur.

  28. Standing on his holy hill, one day Shekh Farid saw a packman pass and he begged for alms.

  29. The packman was immediately commanded to halt, and lay his packs upon the ground.

  30. Lucindy an' me bought 'em of the packman with our own money.

  31. The messenger was not Simon Smith, the packman who periodically visited the neighborhood to sell his wares to the housewives thereabout, but a stranger.

  32. The head of the bear faced outward, and the packman looked like one of the itinerant showmen who used to ply their trade along the Tokaido in the days of the Shogun, with the mask of a long-nosed hobgoblin fastened to his back.

  33. Fearing that the animals would be intimidated by the size of our army, we decided to separate into two detachments, Keyser with his guide and packman and I with mine.

  34. But did your honour," turning round, "ever get back the siller ye gae to the travelling packman for the bodle?

  35. Pretty fair; and I hope the packman will be here ere long to carry them to Bridgewater, where they say the Duke of Monmouth and his men are encamped.

  36. I will now turn in, father, to be ready to send off the fish as soon as the packman comes.

  37. I will tell you this: that within a fortnight that news was known to us in London Town; for merchant wrote it to merchant at the bottom of his bills, and packman passed the news on to packman from town to town.

  38. A packman whom I thawed yesterday at my kitchen fire tells me, that last Sabbath only the Auld Lichts held service.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.