She refused to believe a word of the policeman's story, or of Mr Peasemarsh's either, even when they made Robert turn out his pockets in an archway and show the guineas.
Everyone now turned out its pockets on the lead roof of the tower, where visitors for the last hundred and fifty years had cut their own and their sweethearts' initials with penknives in the soft lead.
You made fun of me for getting father to have nine pockets in my Norfolks,' said he, 'but now you see!
It was more than a mile, and the road was very dusty indeed, and the sun seemed to get hotter and hotter, and the gold in their pockets got heavier and heavier.
He ought to have a lot of money in the pockets of those extra-special bags.
For when Cyril had filled his nine pockets and his handkerchief and the space between himself and his shirt front with the gold coins, he had to stand up.
Mr Peasemarsh put his hands in his pockets and laughed, and they did not like the way he did it.
Fill your pockets with it, I tell you, and come along.
Eleven men nodded assent and looked down at the slips of paper they had produced from inner pockets and held ready in their hands.
All through his lawyer, of course, while Elfigo sat back with his hands in his pockets and his feet thrust out before him, whimsically contemplating his tan shoes.
When O'Malley turned and strolled back to the porch, his hands still in his pockets and his eyes still on the ground as though he were weighing the matter carefully, Starr stood where he was, apparently unaware that the sheriff had moved.
They seemed to be apprehensive of their pockets being picked, of their houses being robbed.
Had not several ladies been clamouring to the effect that their pockets had been picked?
Fully a dozen men pushed their cheques into their pockets and left the bank.
I frequently pluck wild apples of so rich and spicy a flavor that I wonder all orchardists do not get a scion from that tree, and I fail not to bring home my pockets full.
The slopes around the base of the Carn showed here and there an outcrop of granite, but with pockets of deep soil in which (or so the Lord Proprietor maintained) barley could be grown at a profit.
You fill your pockets in a London shop; you go off to an auction, and there you bid for these Islands, that you've never seen.
So I crammed my fists into my pockets by way of ballast, and sauntered to the door for a trifle of property which the regulations had made me leave there.
Being stone-broke when you go on board doesn't matter if you ship forward; but aft, to start with bare pockets may get you a bad name.
From one of his pockets the old man drew a revolver and held it up, resting the barrel on a crooked arm, and aligning the sights at an imaginary enemy.
He had bills in his pockets for francs and pesetas, which amounted in all to eighteen pounds four shillings and some odd pence English.
A man," said he, "who never knows one minute whether he may not be arrested and have his pockets cleared the next, should never be without these.
He fumbled in several pockets and finally produced the card.
Kitty solved the difficulty by diving into Keith's pockets after the packages, and emptying the brown sugar and chocolate into the saucepan.
Presently Malcolm, hunting through his pocketsfor a programme he was talking about, took out a bunch of letters.
Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces, with his hands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised; plainly signifying that it was quite true, and that he despised us as asses all.
Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post.
He lodged at a sluice-keeper's out on the marshes, and on working-days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back.
I had previously sought in my pockets for the letter, that I might refer to it again; but I could not find it, and was uneasy to think that it must have been dropped in the straw of the coach.
I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up.
Thus I made the second discovery on that first occasion, that the nurture of the little Pockets consisted of alternately tumbling up and lying down.
That is all; just stood staring at us, with feet planted firmly on the gravel, hands in pockets and an expression of unwinking candour in their young eyes.
Letters were found in her pockets from a Sergeant Cairola.
This tall, high-shouldered man with his spade-shaped beard and ragged smoking jacket, the cotton wool oozing from the quilting and the pockets burst at the corners, had recluse written all over him.
First of all I searched around, and filled all my pockets with the biggest diamonds I could find.
But Gulliver then took from hispockets the black cattle and the sheep, which of course clearly showed that he had been speaking truth.
Aladdin did not guess that these fruits were precious stones, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, but they looked so pretty that he filled all his pockets with them as he passed back through the garden.
As to Quidd, he went homewards, as if nothing had happened, and soon made his reappearance, prepared for the usual squibbing and cracking, with his pockets full of squibs and crackers.
It has doubled the prices of the products of their farms, and filled their pockets with a sound circulating medium; and they are all well pleased with its operations.
It is he, and he alone, that here proposes to spend thousands of the people's public treasure, for no other advantage to them than to make valueless in their pockets the reward of their industry.
He hugs the returned youth, and pries into his pockets with as much enthusiasm as though he had been absent for months.
They are not lazy, but their burden will not be lightened until this outrageous taxation, which goes to line the pockets of some individual, is removed.
At last he took two quarters from his pocketsand held them before me on his open palm.
He wished to see his name everywhere, and always looked for it in the journals with which his pockets were stuffed.
He was drowsing in a chair in the cabin, with his hands deep down in his overcoat pockets and his helmet over his eyes.
Lo, there sat Tugendheim, with his hands deep in his pocketsand a great cigar between his teeth.
His father pockets the rent of three fat villages, so the son believes himself a wisehead.
He pointed to a gray gelding which nosed confidently at the back hip pockets of his master.
I'm simply sneaking around behind him so's I can pour his pocketsfull of the coin.
Already his pockets were full of roots and pieces of rock; and it was only by the utmost persuasion that I could prevent him from carrying a lump of lava that must have weighed twenty pounds.
Every person within a circle of twenty miles, and with money enough in his pockets to pay for the refreshments, was expected to be present.
He then put down his pack, and began to search for something in the pockets of his coat--a knife, perhaps, or a pistol.
Within the mouth the surface is of reddish rock, with holes or pockets dug into the sides, which it is probable were used for cupboards by the original occupant.
They eat as if their pockets were lined with gold!
So, dressed in shabby old clothes with nothing in his pockets but the nine silver kopeks, Matti left the city where people were beginning to know him as a merchant and started back to his native village.
He reached into his pockets and drew forth a bunch of papers, which he gave to Tom, who rapidly ran through them.
Well, from the way Heidenmuller’s room looked, and the way the things in his pockets were left, I’ve wondered if the man had not his secrets.
The caretaker stood silent and sullen as Swenton spoke, his hands deep in the front pockets of his apron.
The only thing to do is to put your hands in your trousers pockets and pay, cash down, just as you would in any business transaction.
No, a woman usually goes through her husband's pockets when he's asleep, I suppose.
Then I recalled that one of my captors had thrust something into one of my pockets just before they took me ashore and I put my hand into that pocket and drew out an envelope that I knew I had not put there.
Bud who had preceded him, handed over his slingshot together with a supply of stones which he had brought in one of his pockets from Friday Island.
His hands were hidden in the pockets of his dinner-coat; but she could guess how they were held, like claws, in that concealment, claws itching for her throat.
If only she had thought to rifle Victor's pockets .
He sat, with his hands in his pockets and his legs stretched out before him, looking at the fire.
Toward the rear of the bottom pockets it was held by stop-planks.
It was practically impossible to fill all parts of the pockets formed by these flanges.
In the lower pockets it was wet, and flowed under the pressure of shoving the shield.
The face was mined out to the front of the hood and breasted down to a little below the floor of the top pockets of the shield.
The air pressure was always about equal to the hydrostatic head at the middle of the shield, so that the face in the upper and middle pockets was dry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pockets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
