A boat for carrying mail.
Small boat designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation.
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.
6 Maybe by packet boat from Philadelphia?
7 It was likely she gave Noggin-or an unknown someone else?-the card and put him on a packet boat from Philadelphia.
8 That night the Great Detective might have been seen on the deck of the Calais packet boat with his secretary.
9 My wounds being now sufficiently, or rather temporarily, healed, I embarked about bedtime at Cartersville on the canal packet boat .
10 His keen deep-set eyes were on the shipping lying out in the cove, watching the fussy approach of the bluff packet boat .
11 True-Jimmyhad no respect for packet boats and deserved a good trouncing.
12 Report of Don Juan Manuel de Ayala Commander of the Packet Boat San
13 The Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company adheres to a schedule of regular fortnightly steamship connection.
14 Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company
15 On these packet boats , too, I could talk with travelers, and try to strike the trail of John Rucker.
16 Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats , between England and Holland, go out and come in.
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