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