Parcel

I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.

At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.

“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”

I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.

[…] this youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,

[…] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age […]

A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

The same Experiments succeed on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]

1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2, The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.

I don't think we are sitting pretty / So far away from our fair city / But I love you more than any parcel of earth.

Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.

Thoſe ghoſtly Kings would parcel out my pow’r, / And all the fatneſs of my Land devour;

Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.

Then the great Hall was wholly broken down, / And the broad woodland parcell’d into farms;

[…] that mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy!

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]

[…] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]

here was one [a hut] that, summer-blanch’d, / Was parcel-bearded with the traveller’s-joy / In Autumn, parcel ivy-clad;