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Meanings of packet-boat in English

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Usage of packet-boat in English
1
He needed only have taken a saltwater trip in a packet-boat.
Biographia Literaria
2
I shall return through Casterbridge and Budmouth, where I shall take the packet-boat.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
3
She slew my lord on board a packet-boat; she bears the arrows that slay.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2
4
Two days later at Southampton the old man boarded a little packet-boat bound for Havre.
John Enderby
5
We're soldiers. He jerked his chin toward the nearby pier, where a packet-boat rode at anchor.
Dangerous Women
6
I have received two letters from you since last post; I suppose the wind stopped the packet-boat.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
7
I leave to-morrow evening on the packet-boat.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
8
As soon as they had stepped out of the packet-boat they asked what road led under the lighthouses.
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
9
The packet-boat, however, is still preferable.
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
10
I must fly: a packet-boat to Calais, or a room in the Tower, I must choose between the two.
Devereux — Volume 04
11
A packet-boat furnished by an English friend lies in readiness to receive the royal family and take them to their-
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
12
Brereton, with his forces, embarked for India, after despatching a packet-boat to restore the Sultan of Sulu to his throne.
The Philippine Islands / A Political, Geographical, Ethnographic...
13
The cook, a native of Harwich, sent up word of a night packet-boat starting at about eleven o'clock last year.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 5
14
Reaching Boulogne, a Dover packet-boat had just raised anchor; I succeeded in boarding her, and arrived in London the next evening.
Old Fritz and the New Era
15
A voyage in an ordinary sailing-vessel, which is not a packet-boat, is as wearisome a thing as can be well conceived.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
16
I fear you have not had my last, for the packet-boat has been stopped on the French stopping our messenger at Calais.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1