"Pack on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... came to Chamonix and got lodging in a small hotel on the skirts of the town. His spirits fell when he entered the room. He put his pedlar's pack on the floor and sat down on the narrow bed, suddenly conscious of an enormous fatigue. His feet burned, his legs ached, his back was raw where the heavy pack had rested. He thought: "What am I doing here? I have nothing but the few hundred pounds ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... the great mudholes of unknown depth blocked the trail, and they must strike into the bush, she required no guidance. They laughed and admired, to see her stop, looking this way and that, and deliberately pick her way through, always with due regard to the height and breadth of the pack on her back. Emmy declined to be hurried; she had an air that said as plainly as words, if they didn't like her pace, they could leave her behind, and ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... built a tent by spreading two of the blankets over bushes to keep off the sun-glare. But there was not much rest in the gasping heat and at last Marcella stood up, stretching her arms which the pack on ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... the sound of the opening gate and of footsteps on the gravel. It was not Tom who was entering, but a man in a sealskin cap and a blue plush waistcoat, carrying a pack on his back, and followed closely by a bullterrier of brindled coat ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... or two her brother came to Donee. He had his new clothes in a pack on his back. "Come," he said, pointing beyond the great ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various
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