She began to pack his purchases into a brown-paper shopping bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Key to Rebecca]

I explained how it had come to me originally in a brown-paper parcel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

She went across to the stove and got some dung out of a torn brown-paper bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiller Bamboo]

I plopped the manuscript down on the table, peeled off the brown-paper wrapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [1st to Die]

Flambeau tore a brown-paper parcel out of his inner pocket and rent it in pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Father Brown Omnibus]

He opened his glove box and took out the brown-paper lunch sack he carried with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The crush]

Avocados in a brown-paper bag; add an apple or banana to the bag to accelerate ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: How to store fresh fruits and vegetables] Reference

He took out a small brown-paper grocery sack, with a rolled top, like a kid's lunch bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night Crew]

She opened the desk-lid and fished for the brown-paper parcel, now neatly tied up with string.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Form at Malory Towers]

She produced a small package wrapped, you'll love this, in plain brown-paper, and handed me an invoice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

'Mrs Robins, did you see who gave a brown-paper parcel to Martin Stukely at Cheltenham races last Friday?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

Avenue toward Oakland, Daylight smoked one of his brown-paper cigarettes and reviewed what had taken place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XVIII] Reference

One of his hands, as I have said, held the umbrella: in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]

After you open them, store your button, shiitake, portobellos, and other mushrooms in a brown-paper lunch bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: How to keep food fresh] Reference

'Was the brown-paper parcel you gave me at Cheltenham the self-same one that Martin gave you earlier in the day?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

They walk out of the bathroom, and Marino retrieves a large brown-paper evidence envelope from a crime-scene case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

Then I went out into the town again and bought a long green raincoat and had it made up into a brown-paper parcel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marazan]

Stone fruits, including nectarines, peaches, and plums, in a brown-paper bag at room temperature to speed ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: How to store fresh fruits and vegetables] Reference

She picked up the brown-paper parcel from among the coals and undid the string with hot, red fingers that trembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

But would a crook be living in such poverty after sending off thirty thousand francs in an ordinary brown-paper package?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]

The photographs depicts the 1.14 million brown-paper supermarket bags used every hour in this country, according to Jordan.    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Numbers: Can America give up its addiction to paper and plastic shopping bags?] Reference

But do I believe that reviewers are bribed, with used notes being handed over in brown-paper bags in supermarket car parks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The way things are] Reference

Every thing, whether a brown-paper parcel, a newspaper, an official despatch, a private letter or note is here denominated a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

She just counted the money three times and stacked it carefully in a brown-paper grocery bag Alice provided for the purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echo Burning]

Then he saw Ed Payne give the tape in its brown-paper parcel to me, and he knew it was the right tape as he'd packed it himself. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

How changed from the long, long days ago, when I was a connoisseur in Parparillo cigars, brown-paper cigarettes, and cane cheroots!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

I also enjoyed their Industrial Age packaging -- a brown-paper wrapper stamped with the usual information and the words NO SLAVERY.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference

New York City: At the Spotted Pig (thespottedpig. com), you'll find old butcher charts on the walls and plain brown-paper place mats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food: Highbrow Pub Crawl] Reference

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees and prepare a large baking sheet with parchment paper, or as I did, recycle a brown-paper grocery bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Butterfly Effect] Reference

It's got gods, concubines, and monsters -- along with brown-paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Stair] Reference

The designer, touted as the most influential in the U.S., ripped brown-paper wrapping off.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Triumph for British fashion at Baftas] Reference

Models hit the catwalk at Marc Jacobs's show, after being released from their brown-paper prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference