'What do you think of vinegar and
brown paper?' inquired the suffering Fledgeby, still rocking and moaning.
Brown paper parcel here, that's all--other luggage gone by water--packing-cases, nailed up--big as houses-- heavy, heavy, damned heavy,' replied the stranger, as he forced into his pocket as much as he could of the
brown paper parcel, which presented most suspicious indications of containing one shirt and a handkerchief.
The little priest was so much the essence of those Eastern flats; he had a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling; he had eyes as empty as the North Sea; he had several
brown paper parcels, which he was quite incapable of collecting.
Vinegar and
brown paper, vinegar and
brown paper, from morning to night.
She then betook herself to the business of packing, for which a small quantity of
brown paper sufficed, and, having received her small pittance of wages, she returned home.
To him entered a remarkable creature with a
brown paper bag over its head.
She had got one of the cupboards open, and stood with her back to him, smoothing down a sheet of
brown paper on one of the shelves, and whispering to herself "So, so!
She glanced round hastily to make sure there was no one else in the room, and quickly produced an old sheet of
brown paper. This she handed to Poirot, murmuring as she did so the cryptic words:
Mildred came about six, and Philip, who was watching from the window, went down to let her in and help her to bring up the luggage: it consisted now of no more than three large parcels wrapped in
brown paper, for she had been obliged to sell everything that was not absolutely needful.
She was carrying an enormous parcel that might have been a bird-cage wrapped in
brown paper, and she took it into a bric-a-brac shop and came out without it.
A strong smell filled the prison, like the smell of
brown paper burning.
It was so beautiful a day that he was loth to forecast evil, yet something must perforce have happened at the cottage, and that of a decisive nature; for here was Miss M'Glashan on her travels, with a small patrimony in
brown paper parcels, and the old lady's bearing implied hot battle and unqualified defeat.