"Pack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of warmth. A score or more of women, with their children, assembled in a large room, lighted by a single antique lamp suspended from the ceiling. The women had distaffs and heavy spindles, by means of which they spun a kind of coarse pack-thread, which the children wound up, sitting on stools at their feet. All the while some old dame would relate the old-world ogreish stories of Blue Beard, the Sorcerer, or the Loup Garou, to fascinate the ears and trouble the dreams of the young folks. It was ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
... "Just like a pack of gabbling old women, you mean!" exclaimed Eric. "I should like to wring all their necks for waking ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... audible. What most hurt the feelings of the young priest, however, was the extraordinary promiscuity of the table d'hote, at which men and women, young girls and ecclesiastics, were packed together in chance order, and satisfied their hunger like a pack of hounds snapping at offal in all haste. Baskets of bread went round and were promptly emptied. And there was a perfect massacre of cold meats, all the remnants of the victuals of the day before, leg of mutton, veal, and ham, encompassed by a fallen mass of ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... a special sense of the word—than The Progress of Prudence (MILLS AND BOON). Horses and hounds play so large a part therein as almost to be the protagonists; certainly they are the chief influencing forces in the development of the heroine, from the day when she attempts to purchase one of the pack, under the impression that they are being exhibited for sale, to that other day, some time later, when her own entry finishes second in the Grand National. You will notice that Prudence had progressed considerably during ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 • Various
... preparing a young actress to appear in one of his tragedies, he tied her hands to her sides with pack thread in order to check her tendency toward exuberant gesticulation. Under this condition of compulsory immobility she commenced to rehearse, and for some time she bore herself calmly enough; but at last, completely carried ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
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