A boat for carrying mail.
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Examples for "packet "
Examples for "packet "
1 I was handed this year's packet and given information about several open-houses.
2 Earlier this year, my dad sold his sugar packet collection on Ebay.
3 They compare notes on the best way to open a Reese packet .
4 Kim thought of the oilskin packet and the books in the food-bag.
5 The information packet was large and there were very many videos included.
1 He was six when he boarded the mailboat to cross the Irish Sea.
2 For generations, the classic journey between this country and Britain has been the mailboat .
3 But she's more than just a mailboat .
4 Yet despite its odd construction, the aptly named Experiment has just beaten the Holyhead mailboat by a full 15 hours.
5 We have related how Murat had met one of his former Mamelukes, a man called Othello, on board the Bastia mailboat .
1 Orders from the bridge of the packet boat rang out over the water.
2 Three horses abreast could drag a packet boat some four miles an hour.
3 Again the packet boat was sighted on the distant horizon.
4 We were somewhere west of Jordan, when we met a packet boat going west.
5 She made arrangements for crossing in the packet boat , which then, as now, plied from Dover to Calais.
1 I'm leaving for London on the mail boat in an hour.
2 Troubridge was staring after the mail boat , still pulling steadily toward the waterfront.
3 The mail boat connects with the incoming sledges and train on Tuesday and Saturday.
4 I expect an old Indian friend home by the mail boat that arrives to-night.
5 Tom O'Donovan caught, just caught the mail boat at Kingstown.
6 Yet he had traveled without stopping from Paris, by fast motor car and the mail boat .
7 You say you can't take the mail boat ?
8 Aboard the mail boat she met no more acquaintances, and had leisure to think things over calmly.
9 The following day I took the mail boat to Suez-arrived last night at Marseilles-andhere I am!
10 I'd ha' shot through un, sir, an' th' mail boat 's a big un, sir, as you knows.
11 He intended to return home, to Bremen, by mail boat , second class, with Mrs. Hermann and the children.
12 The Moorsoms did manage to catch the homeward mail boat all right, but had only twenty-four hours in town.
13 Three days later Dr. Grenfell reached the harbor where he was to board the mail boat upon her arrival.
14 The mail boat from St. Johns came once a fortnight, to be sure, and she had a doctor aboard her.
15 We had been having considerable trouble in the accommodation of the heavy batches of patients that came by the mail boat .
16 Feb. 23 - Australian mail boat Maloja fired on by armed merchantman in English Channel; operations at the Dardanelles interrupted by unfavorable weather.
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