A boat for carrying mail.
Small boat designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation.
1Orders from the bridge of the packet boat rang out over the water.
2Three horses abreast could drag a packet boat some four miles an hour.
3Again the packet boat was sighted on the distant horizon.
4We were somewhere west of Jordan, when we met a packet boat going west.
5She made arrangements for crossing in the packet boat, which then, as now, plied from Dover to Calais.
6Maybe by packet boat from Philadelphia?
7It was likely she gave Noggin-or an unknown someone else?-the card and put him on a packet boat from Philadelphia.
8That night the Great Detective might have been seen on the deck of the Calais packet boat with his secretary.
9My wounds being now sufficiently, or rather temporarily, healed, I embarked about bedtime at Cartersville on the canal packet boat.
10His keen deep-set eyes were on the shipping lying out in the cove, watching the fussy approach of the bluff packet boat.
11True-Jimmyhad no respect for packet boats and deserved a good trouncing.
12Report of Don Juan Manuel de Ayala Commander of the Packet Boat San
13The Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company adheres to a schedule of regular fortnightly steamship connection.
14Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company
15On these packet boats, too, I could talk with travelers, and try to strike the trail of John Rucker.
16Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats, between England and Holland, go out and come in.
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