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  • We see Pacquet, the posturing, arrogant store owner to whom Locky, and many in the village, owe money.

    Johnny Belinda - Part 1 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • We see Pacquet, the posturing, arrogant store owner to whom Locky, and many in the village, owe money.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • _The Pacquet-boat is just going off, I am afraid of missing Tide.

    Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) Samuel Cobb

  • Cereste, my second son, the Abbe de Saint-Simon and his brother, Pacquet, and two principal officers of the King's troops, who remained with me as long as I stayed in Spain.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • _After this Preamble, it is presum'd, that one who lives on the Other side of the Globe, will expect by every Pacquet-boat to know what is done on This.

    Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) Samuel Cobb

  • [4] Neither Defoe nor Mr.. Haywood contributed to the little budget of miscellaneous matter prefixed to the second issue of the Life and Adventures (August, 1720) and sometimes found separately under the title: Mr. Campbell's Pacquet, for the Entertainment of Gentlemen and Ladies.

    The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

  • Even as early as 1622, Gaspare Aselli (1581-1626) found the chyle vessels, but correct explanation was possible only after the discovery of the thoracic duct (ductus thoracius) and its opening into the circulation by Jean Pacquet (1622-74) and Johann van Horne

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Please to direct yr Answer to me on Board as in the Date, if gone to be returned, and then send it by the Post and Pacquet to Lisbon to

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • Franklin was the very man to effect an accommodation, when he set his mind to it, as he did on this occasion; but "in the mean time," he relates, "the Pacquet had sailed with my sea stores, which was some loss to me, and my only recompence was his Lordship's thanks for my service, all the credit for obtaining the accommodation falling to his share."

    The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England Carl Lotus Becker 1909

  • Please to direct yr Answer to me on Board as in the Date, if gone to be returned, and then send it by the Post and Pacquet to Lisbon to

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

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