PACKET

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packet substantiv

1. pachet; mic colet; legăturică.

2. teanc.

3. (mil. sl.) glonte, obuz;

(pop.) to stop / to catch a packet a fi ucis de un glonte sau de o schijă etc.

4. sl. sumă de bani, miză.

5. (mar.) vezi packet boat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

These are my last words, said she; here is the packet which will save Alexis.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had found a packet of letters awaiting me but a few minutes before, and had strolled out of the village to read them while my supper was making ready.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She must have heard of the business the day before, since all Croydon was ringing with it, and she alone could have understood for whom the packet was meant.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have been writing my greetings to my sweet wife; for I hear that a messenger goes from the prince to Southampton within the week, and he would gladly take a packet for me.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Too late! I took the poison before I left my hiding-place. My head swims! I am going! I charge you, sir, to remember the packet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I came to examine the address of the packet I observed that it was to Miss S. Cushing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had sealed up several packets; and were still going on dustily and quietly, when Mr. Jorkins said to us, applying exactly the same words to his late partner as his late partner had applied to him: Mr. Spenlow was very difficult to move from the beaten track.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

From his pocket Stanley Hopkins drew a small paper packet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This quarrel had put a stop to all communications for some months, so that if Browner had occasion to address a packet to Miss Sarah, he would undoubtedly have done so to her old address.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never could have thowt the old boat would have been so strange!” From some pocket in his breast, he took out, with a very careful hand a small paper bundle containing two or three letters or little packets, which he laid upon the table.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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