He could not take his eyes off the smouldering packet.
He could not take his eyes off the smouldering packet; but it appeared that something new had come to birth in his soul--as though he were vowing to himself that he would bear this trial.
The fire, choked between a couple of smouldering pieces of wood, had died down for the first few moments after the packet was thrown upon it.
The old contracts (they will be revised at the end of the year) allow twelve hours for a run which any packet can put behind her in ten.
We dropped to the Heights Receiving Towers twenty minutes ahead of time, and there hung at ease till the Yokohama Intermediate Packet could pull out and give us our proper slip.
"I was passing close to the door of the captain's cabin, which was half open, and I saw him give the
packet and letter to Dantes."
At her own home, both at Southdown and at Trottermore Castle, this tall and awful missionary of the truth rode about the country in her barouche with outriders, launched
packets of tracts among the cottagers and tenants, and would order Gaffer Jones to be converted, as she would order Goody Hicks to take a James's powder, without appeal, resistance, or benefit of clergy.
(Chorus.) She's the Liverpool
packet - O Lord, let her go!
"Now, then, if Jim is agreeable, we'll open the
packet"; and he laid it before him on the table.
The young man was silent: he had not opened the
packet in his hand.
Three years had elapsed since the sailing of the emigrant ship; when, at that same hour of sunset, and in the same place, I stood on the deck of the
packet vessel that brought me home, looking on the rosy water where I had seen the image of that ship reflected.
"Oh, thank you -- thank you," cried Anne, clasping the
packet rapturously.