"Pocket book" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Guildford's Churchwardens' Manual meets a real want, in that it provides in small compass . . . a handy pocket book containing the many matters legal and ecclesiastical, which concern the Churchwarden's office . . . No one ought to assume it without being armed with such a work as this, and an Incumbent cannot do better than present his Churchwardens with ...
— Churchwardens' Manual - their duties, powers, rights, and privilages • George Henry
... reached home at night my pocket book was a little lighter, my trip had cost me something. I told my folks that if they had made out in Canada, that I was a southern man and that I was after that woman, it would have been doubtful about my ever getting home and that it would have taken three hundred Michigan troops ...
— The Bark Covered House • William Nowlin
... Germans in Germany. My writing materials consist of an inkstand, a sand-box, a few pens, a pencil, and a blotter. In my trousers pocket I carry a purse, and in my overcoat pocket I carry a pocket book; a larger portfolio I carry under my arm. Put on the table the sugar-basin, the tea-caddy, ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer
... soul," for it has none. If you have never been interested in the matter before, begin to-day; if you have never helped before, help now. Get in somewhere, get in quick, get in all over; do not stand around the edges looking on and criticising others; be sure you get your pocket book open, and send the Treasurer of the Association double what you did last year; do something, do anything. We have been playing at missions long enough. With our great wealth it is a disgrace that this work was not ...
— The American Missionary, Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888 • Various
... around a girl, is always no good. You marry a chap with brains, Katriny, even if he ain't so long on the cash. Why, I know a young fellow——" Mr. McBride pulled himself up short. "You dash in for brains, Triny, and I'll take out my pocket book." Here he nodded, as if concluding a bargain, but Katrina ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... arrest of E. R. Rich, of the 1st Md. Rebel Cavalry, on the charge of being a spy. He came to this office to report and take the oath of allegiance, but I think he did not come until he heard from his friend Quinn, with whom he came to this city. I hand you herewith his sworn statement, memoranda and pocket book, which show ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith |
