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Suitcase   /sˈutkˌeɪs/   Listen
Suitcase

noun
1.
A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes.  Synonyms: bag, grip, traveling bag, travelling bag.






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"Suitcase" Quotes from Famous Books



... find his grandfather or his Uncle Joe waiting for him; in this he was disappointed, and as the sun was getting along toward mid-afternoon, he had picked up his worn suitcase and set off through the town by a route that he knew would bring him to a short- cut ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson

... Boy saw the suitcase boy, as he had named him, again. He didn't seem quite so severe as he had at night, and when Sunny smiled at him he actually returned it with a grin that showed a ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White

... apartment, Craig began packing his suitcase with the few things he would need for a journey. "I'm going out to Bisbee Hall to-morrow for a few days, Walter, and if you could find it convenient to come along I should like ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

... what you want to do is to throw into a dress-suitcase a few things, and we'll ship the trunks by rail to Nice. All you need is a toothbrush, ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... in their usual efficient way. Hinpoha and Gladys sped to the kitchen to make coffee and sandwiches; Sahwah sped downstairs into the laundry to bring up the freshly ironed clothes; Slim and the Captain went up into the attic to bring down the suitcase and make themselves generally useful; Migwan went to Nyoda's room with her to help her make ready for ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey

... another passport under the name of Shoichi Yokoi, together with visas which filled the whole passport and overflowed onto several extra pages. Shoichi or Masakazu is now traveling with both passports and a suitcase full of film ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

... two-thirds of the way down and had reached the steepest part of the hill when, in rounding a particularly sharp turn where they had to keep all their wits about them, they saw just ahead of them, in the middle of the road, a boy carrying a suitcase. ...
— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh

... room, and with his suitcase in his hand slipped down the back stairs and into the garden. Cautiously he made his way to the gate in the wall, and in the street outside ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis

... room 43 and after she had paid a week in advance a bellboy showed her to the tiny apartment and carried her suitcase. ...
— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)

... his suitcase at the depot newsstand and walked up a steep hill trail with his guide. The miner asked no questions of the New Mexican as to his business with Gordon, nor did the latter volunteer any information. They ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine

... ten, and they could make Touggourt that night. But they wished Maieddine to reach there first, so they stopped by the chott, and lunched from a smartly fitted picnic-basket Lady MacGregor had brought. Stephen paid his Arab coachman, told him he might go back, and transferred a small suitcase—his only luggage—from the carriage to the car. They gave Maieddine two hours' grace, and having started on, always slowed up whenever Nevill's field-glasses showed a slowly trotting vehicle on the far horizon. The road, which was hardly ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... the door closed something snapped within Bernice. She sprang dynamically to her feet, clinching her hands, then swiftly and noiseless crossed over to her bed and from underneath it dragged out her suitcase. Into it she tossed toilet articles and a change of clothing, Then she turned to her trunk and quickly dumped in two drawerfulls of lingerie and stammer dresses. She moved quietly. but deadly efficiency, and in three-quarters ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... middle of the waitin'-room like a couple of boobs for a while, and then a guy, which I figured must be a college devil bustin' into a new fraternity, comes gallopin' across the floor, slams a suitcase down on my foot and throws his arms around the wife's neck. He had on a cap which could of been used as a checker board when you got tired of wearin' it, a suit of clothes that must of been made by a maniac tailor and the yellowest tan shoes I ever seen in my life. If he had ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer

... "you had better leave as much as possible of the weight behind; there's no likelihood of our getting more packers. You have to choose between a camp-chair or a suitcase, for example, and ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss

... and a determined wag of the head, Patty rang her bell, and when the maid came she said, "Bring my chocolate, please, and then get out a suitcase, ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells



Words linked to "Suitcase" :   grip, baggage, overnight case, gripsack, Gladstone bag, carpetbag, luggage, bag, weekender, overnight bag, travelling bag, Gladstone, traveling bag, garment bag, portmanteau, overnighter



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