"Portmanteau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fingers pushed a heap of papers and books over to Barry and immediately resumed the task of filling a battered portmanteau with crumpled clothes. ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... the Bishop's cloak And spread it upon the ground. And out of the Bishop's portmanteau ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... when the love of life suggested another way of escaping the dreadful ordeal. He might sell all he had, fly to France, change his religion, and bury himself in a monastery. He went home to pack up; but while he was looking over his portmanteau, his mood changed, and he again resolved on self-destruction. Taking a coach he ordered the coachman to drive to the Tower Wharf, intending to throw himself into the river. But the love of life once more interposed, under the guise ...
— Cowper • Goldwin Smith
... travelling by rail in his native country in 1876 lost his portmanteau, containing five hundred thousand dollars in bonds of various nations, among which were five thousand dollars in United States six per cent coupon bonds. Some time ago the police of Scotland arrested two men and one woman upon suspicion of having ...
— The Youth's Companion - Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 • Various
... produced the paper and showed my work in silence. He read it through without a word of comment, good, bad or indifferent, laid it down upon the table and left the room. I heard him rummaging about in the chamber overhead and by and by he came down with a portmanteau in his hand and without a word or a look left the house. I thought that he was galled to feel that he had been ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
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