1 And she arose the next morning with the fixed intention of packing her trunk immediately after breakfast.
2 She ran down the stairs with some idea of packing up Miss Pittypat's china and the little silver she had left when she refugeed to Macon.
3 For the dozenth time, she ran out onto the porch but this time she did not go back to her futile packing.
4 There were never enough chairs to go around and frequently ladies sat on the steps of the front porch with men grouped about them on the banisters, on packing boxes or on the lawn below.
5 When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.
6 While Antonia was packing her trunk and putting her room in order, to leave it, the front doorbell rang violently.
7 Then there was a great time of packing.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 8 "I'll have it ready in little or no time," he said, bustling and packing away his tools.
9 They were drovers and stock raisers, who had come from far states, and brokers and commission merchants, and buyers for all the big packing houses.
10 One stood and watched, and little by little caught the drift of the tide, as it set in the direction of the packing houses.
11 They make a great feature of showing strangers through the packing plants, for it is a good advertisement.
12 Jurgis had come home with a big packing box on his head, and he sent Jonas to get another that he had bought.
13 Jonas pushed a truck loaded with hams from the smoke rooms on to an elevator, and thence to the packing rooms.
14 He had been in jail only three days for it, and had come out laughing, and had not even lost his place in the packing house.
15 All the year round they had been serving as cogs in the great packing machine; and now was the time for the renovating of it, and the replacing of damaged parts.