Parcel in example sentence

I set myself close up to a shop-side with my back to the counter, as if to let the crowd pass by, when keeping my eye upon a parcel of lace which the shopkeeper was showing to some ladies that stood by me, the shopkeeper and her maid were so taken up with looking to see who was coming, and what shop they would go to, that I found means to slip a paper of lace into my pocket and come clear off with it; so the lady-milliner paid dear enough for her gaping after the queen.

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Imagine receiving a parcel saying, from the past, okay now you're supposed to spend the rest of your life doing all of this.

And turnarounds are part and parcel of what I have focused on for most of my professional career.

Because despair, civil war, hunger and famine, although they're part and parcel of our African reality, they are not the only reality.

For me, it conjures up images of passivity, of someone sitting idly in an armchair waiting for knowledge to come to him in a neat little parcel.

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