Small boat designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation.
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Examples for "packet"
Examples for "packet"
1I was handed this year's packet and given information about several open-houses.
2Earlier this year, my dad sold his sugar packet collection on Ebay.
3They compare notes on the best way to open a Reese packet.
4Kim thought of the oilskin packet and the books in the food-bag.
5The information packet was large and there were very many videos included.
1On May 31st the paquebot was sighted near Point Pinos.
2(* "Devait-il en temps de guerre conduire un paquebot?")
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.
1The signing on of a packet ship was quite an historic occasion.
2She proved to be the packet ship James Monroe, Captain Wilkinson, bound from Liverpool to New York.
3But Captain Bob took this full-pooped old packet ship around the Horn and employed her in the China tea trade.
4I returned in the packet ship Utica, sailing from Havre, and reaching New York after a passage of forty-two days.
5I sailed in the packet ship Philadelphia from New York for Portsmouth, where we arrived after a passage of twenty-four days.
1It has usually been in the smoking-room of a local mail steamer.
2The mail steamer Ariel Running between New York and Aspinwall, we captured.
3The little mail steamer came hooting its way around the Point.
4On the high seas he overhauled the British mail steamer, Trent.
5Sir George Bowen arrived here by the mail steamer on the 15th ult.
1The British and French mail steamers give the port a wide offing.
2The mail steamers are protected by rifle guns and bodies of soldiers.
3The contract then passed on to deal with the service of mail steamers.
4There are regular mail steamers, once in two weeks, on four routes, viz.
5I just come down the Coast on one of the Pacific mail steamers.
1True-Jimmyhad no respect for packet boats and deserved a good trouncing.
2On these packet boats, too, I could talk with travelers, and try to strike the trail of John Rucker.
3Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats, between England and Holland, go out and come in.
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