In true peasant insolence, each sabot demanded a whole handbag to itself, and, once in, refused to accommodate its substantial bulk to the needs of any of my other possessions.
My Paris handbagstill preserves its suggestion of perpetual picnic.
If my previous impedimenta had been outrageously American, my third handbagwas Scotch, every inch of him.
When she came back, the handbag lightly swinging, she said, "I'd like just to have a few words with you on behalf of my friend.
But Miss Montag stood straight up again as she had left her handbag on the window sill and went to fetch it; she shuffled down the whole length of the room.
Then he came in a cab with a handbag and took away the gold.
She traveled with only a handbag to encumber her, and, therefore, did not take a car, but walked leisurely up the broad highway.
Next morning I waked her early and laid the handbag right before her eyes, hoping she would take the letter out and read it.
I saw her glance at it and put it into her handbag before she went to bed.
Reference to an address memorandum on a slip of paper that she carried in her handbag and a question to the conductor determined where she should get off.
For the time being, she forgot all about the two letters in her handbag that lay on her dresser.
As nearly as I could make out, she had got something from him which she had dropped into her handbag and was now hugging the handbag close to herself almost as if it were gold.
How to Make a Ladies' Handbag [213] To make this bag, get a piece of Russian calf modeling leather.
She drew the letter from herhandbag and showed it to him.
She was puzzled for a moment as she drew her key from her handbag and glanced at the numbers on the doors.
After this he produced The Westminster Gazette from a handbag and began to read it.
A corpulent and rapidly ageing citizen, shrinking apprehensively into a corner of the compartment and holding a small handbag upon his knees as if with a view to instant departure, sat glaring malignantly upon them.
You say you have recovered a handbag which I had lost?
Inform her that I wish to return to her a handbagwhich she lost a few days ago.
Did I not from my window see him running up the street with his handbag through the rain?
Uttering a low cry of dismay, the girl clutched at the handbag swinging by its strap from her wrist: its latch was broken, its wide jaws yawned.
Before the amazed girl could collect herself, he had his hat andhandbag and was already in the hallway.
Then a man, with a handbag but without an umbrella, appeared from the direction of Longacre Square, walking with a deliberation which suggested that he was either indifferent to or unconscious of the rain.
Over one arm she carried a coat of the same material as her skirt, and in her hand a well-worn handbag of imitation leather, rather too large, and decorated with a monogram of two initials in German silver.
Then, by the light of the small electric lamp above her pillow, she turned out the contents of her handbag and counted the money she had stolen from Quard.
His hat went one way, his handbaginto a corner with a resounding bang.
She put them in her handbag and somehow got round a perambulator, and the two went out on the street.
At the bottom of the pile he found the gold-mesh handbag with two pearl rings inside it.
Mary Louise put the paper with the address on it in her handbag and hurried back to Stoddard House.
An empty pocket-book lay on one chair, and an empty handbag on another.
The overturned table, and the ransacked room, the empty pocket-book and handbag were the work of a desperate thief, and it really seemed absurd to connect the name of Iris Clyde with such conditions.
Several deck hands on the boat must have seen the frantic passenger, who ran to the edge of the wharf, and added his handbag to the circlings, while he kept up his shoutings.
As he did so, he grasped a small handbag in one hand and moved with the alert nimbleness of a boy.
There was a scream, and in a twinkling the ragged Mexican was in full flight, carrying the handbag as he ran.
That the handbag had not been opened Darrin was sure, for he had kept his eye upon it through the chase.
She just had a handbag of money snatched from her by a thief.
After a little, however, the new girl opened her handbag and took out her toilet articles and her, nightgown, robe, and slippers.
She filed the telegram to Miss Prentice as soon as she got off the train; then she checked her handbag at the parcel counter and walked out of the station.
There was a tan straw hat, too (Clo dared not appear in the brown toque and coat described by the newspapers), and a cheap handbag purchased for the pearls in case she should get them.
She gave me a small newspaper cutting "Lost, a handbag containing private letters, car-tickets, etc.
Clara had only a little time, and with the letters in herhandbag she started down the stairs.
Yes, I took him from the depot to the shipping office, and then carried his handbag to the steamer," said the taxicab driver.
A lady lost her handbag containing jewelry to the value of ten thousand dollars.
Here is news about that lady on the train who lost her handbag with jewelry in it worth ten thousand dollars.
Dick, do you think Tom took that lady's handbag with the jewels?
You say she carried a small handbag containing linen.
Even the handbag she carried with her had disappeared.
You may add a postscript to your letter to Monsieur Distin, advising him to inquire at the cloak-room of Charing Cross Station for an unclaimed handbag left there on July 5th.
Léonie Lemarque's handbag has been found at the Charing Cross Station; it was left in the waiting-room on the morning of the 5th July, immediately after the arrival of the mail train from Dover.
Among the incomers is a big fellow with a drooping mustache and square-set shoulders, who forthwith drops his handbag and pounces upon Jeffard with greetings boisterous.
The narrow-gauge train was coupled and ready to leave, and Bartrow tossed hishandbag to the porter of the sleeping-car.
Miss Hultz, having gathered up her key, her handkerchief, her handbag and her evening newspaper, favored him with another flashing smile, then departed.
Eleven o'clock had struck and Bab, with her little handbag packed, her face white, had been whirled away uptown in the Beestons' big limousine.
I packed these up, and with my little handbagfor company I went out from Moran's model by Glasgow wharf, and caught the night express for London.
I pawned my good clothes, my overcoat, and handbag in Glasgow, took a bed in Moran's model by the wharf, and once again recommenced my search for Norah.
At the gate she had turned to Mr. Jefferson, who was carrying her handbag to the village stage, from which Stuart had leaped to run up to the porch and say a word of cheer to Mr. Warne, sitting in a big chair.
As if he understood her, Mr. Jefferson was silent as he followed her in, bolted the heavy door, and took from her the handbag she carried.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handbag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bag; baggage; luggage; pocket; pocketbook; poke; purse
