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Example sentences for "paper parcel"

  • As I laid all of a heap in our kitchen, plastered all over, you might have thought I was a large brown-paper parcel, chock full of nothing but groans.

  • When she had paid the bill, and Hilary had taken from her a large brown-paper parcel, they journeyed on together.

  • I began to think it extremely improbable that I should ever recover a line of the missing novel, when she opened a cupboard and drew from it a brown-paper parcel, and, opening it, displayed to me the MS.

  • Then livid-faced, matty-haired Emily Frayne passed by, carrying a brown-paper parcel.

  • One of these men told me once that he knew a certain large private house where a paper parcel consisting of fragments of food was to be found every morning in the back alley, close to the ash-bin.

  • Saying this, she went indoors, and in a few moments returned with a brown-paper parcel in her hands.

  • He banged the hall door, and I sat down with the brown-paper parcel in front of me.

  • She insisted on carrying the brown-paper parcel herself.

  • So I lugged it out as best I could, and there I stood in my shabby grey tweed dress, with my little worn-out jacket and my small hat, clutching at the brown-paper parcel.

  • That very morning, while packing up his brown-paper parcel, some quarter of an hour ago, he had had a somewhat angry interview on this subject with his sisters.

  • Miss Lammie entered in some alarm, and found him fast asleep on his bed, still dressed, with a brown-paper parcel in his arms, and one of his feet evidently enough the source of the frightful stain.

  • Margaret looked at us again in her examining way, without speaking, for a minute, and before she said anything, Pete held out his brown-paper parcel.

  • All locked but the brown-paper parcel, and that sealed.

  • There was a loose board underneath; she raised it, reached down into some dark receptacle, and drew up a brown-paper parcel.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancien regime; dearest cousin; different things; extremely pretty; inadequate supplies; lofty hill; paper bags; paper basket; paper birch; paper called; paper cover; paper covers; paper currency; paper entitled; paper parcel; paper products; paper pulp; paper read; private families; really fine; really was; reciprocal action; stage manager; tertium quid; train from; wide extent