Two out of the collection of
parcels in her arms fell from them on the stairs.
It was his friend of the Harwich train, the stumpy little cure of Essex whom he had warned about his brown paper
parcels.
In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different
parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense.
I soon emptied the hogshead of the bread, and wrapped it up,
parcel by
parcel, in pieces of the sails, which I cut out; and, in a word, I got all this safe on shore also.
Here's the clothes-basket for the small
parcels, John, if you've got any there--where are you, John?'
"But excuse me one moment--I can't think what they're doing with that
parcel." He strode into the booking-office and called with a new voice: "Hi!
When Jip was brought to the Doctor's side, the Mayor opened the larger
parcel; and inside was a dog-collar made of solid gold!
After half an hour of bargaining, during which Captain Van Horn had insisted on the worthlessness of the
parcel, he had bought a fat pig worth five dollars and exchanged it for her.
The
parcel being untied proved to have two smaller packages within, and Rebecca opened with trembling fingers the one addressed to her.
By nine o'clock the following morning the fairy tailors, as Nicolete called them, were at work on the fairy clothes, and, at the end of three days, there came by parcel-post a bulky unromantic-looking brown-paper
parcel, which it was my business to convey to Nicolete under cover of the dark.
"And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a
parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver."
"In the month of June last, do you remember a
parcel arriving for Mr.