One of the tales that later emerged was that Nicholls had been playing up to his England team-mates in a hotel room by showing off his party trick, which involved smoking a packet-full of cigarettes at the same time, when Sexton gatecrashed the fun.
In November 1943, Klemperer is given a cigarette packet full of teeth so that one can be used to replace a missing one for his wife.
A waxed paper packet full of silvery Baltic herrings, small and slender; a basket full of tiny, first-crop new potatoes, with parchment-colored skin so thin you could rub it off with your fingers; and a profusion of dill, chives, parsley and basil growing in little pots.
In college, I worked for a leadership organization where my advisor would supply his team with packets full of names and pictures of people who we would be leading.
Then he handed me a packet, surprisingly thick, full of glossy pamphlets about Scientology, like something you might get from a college admissions office.
On a concrete box behind them was a packet of biscuits, a bottle of lemonade and a plastic bag full of clothes, parked there by sex workers.
On a concrete box behind them was a packet of biscuits, a bottle of lemonade, and a plastic bag full of clothes, parked there by sex workers.
Seed packets are full of useful information about when to start plants, how much light and water they need, and so on.
If you are a guest at such events, you are always asked, "Did you get to meet the stars?" Well, yes, but only in the sense that a birdwatcher, crouched in a richly camouflaged hide with a full bladder and a packet of sandwiches, gets to "meet" the spotted woodpecker a hundred yards away.
The cocaine was hidden in thousands of packets secreted amongst a container full of pineapples which had been shipped from Costa Rica, in Central America.
