I screamed; but the Bedouin would not let me down until I promised him the other pocketful of raisins.
In my boyhood {159} days, a pocketful of kherrub, which I procured for a penny, was to me rather a treat.
When I want them I'll go to them with a pocketful of rocks--knock-down argument.
Mr. Abingdon thought fit to hear the case in camera, so this ragged urchin is wandering about London again with a pocketful of gems.
How came a boy who spoke like a gentleman and was dressed like a street Arab to be wandering about London with a pocketful of diamonds and admitted to the private office of the chief diamond merchant in Hatton Garden?
A fair face, And--they do say--a pocketful of gold When he can worry both her parents dead.
There won't be any thunder-storm to-night, and you haven't got a pocketful of money to keep you awake.
I suppose this was how he came to be trusted with that pocketfulof money, and why he had a young brother along to double his care at the time.
And thereupon he went his way with another pocketful of good resolves.
Virtues are unpleasant things to carry about in any quantity, like a pocketful of stones; but little sins are cheery companions while they remain little.
I was seized with terror lest I should lose the gift that was worth "a pocketful of gold.
If they do,” Clay answered, “I hope they’ll bring a whole pocketful of spark plugs.
They’ll all be wanting to pull us off, and they’ll all be wanting a pocketful of money for doing it.
Smith: A man could take a pocketful of the various kinds of nuts and go around his fence corners and plant a few.
Nevertheless, as it isn't much trouble, I would advise anybody to take a pocketful of hickory nuts out with him when he goes for a walk and plant one every little way.
Ring, a ring a roses, A pocketful of posies; Hush, oh!
Arthur, who had a pocketful of sugar and was dividing it impartially between the two horses, turned at the sound of the voice and gave her an approving glance.
There was silence for a moment and then Mrs. Hamilton said: "I came up with a pocketful of news and have almost forgotten to tell you about it.
Halse had a pocketful of doughnuts (which he always called duffnuts).
Then I bethought myself that he always had a pocketful of apples every morning, and concluded that he must visit his preserve sometime "between days," most likely directly after he appeared to retire to his room at night.
Jeanne's pocketful of money no longer weighed her down.
Petite Jeanne's engagement had come to an end, leaving her with a pocketful of money and one great yearning, a yearning to have a place upon the stage in Grand Opera.
Much or little, she gave or paid out of herpocketful of jangling silver.
Youse've got a pocketful now youse snitched to-night dat youse are tryin' to do me out of.
The doctor stayed as long as he could, and did his best to enliven the dulness by producing a pocketful of Tauchnitzes, and sitting talking while the patient dozed.
So Allen wrote to Bobus's friend at Oxford, but he of course did not keep a pocketful of Hungarian Counts.
He had spent a pocketful of money, or had it stolen.
But that he was alive--that he had gone out into the world, possibly with the hope of finding a fortune and sometime coming back to mother and me with a pocketful of money--Yes!
He did it with somebody for his Easter week, and became as harmless as a sucking dove, till he found his nymph eating onions raw with a pocketful of boiled limpets.
A pocketful of money would have sent him to the bottom of the sea, that breezy April night, when he drifted for hours, with eyes full of salt, twinkling feeble answer to the twinkle of the stars.
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