Ben was a luggage boy, his occupation being to wait at the piers for the arrival of steamboats, or at the railway stations, on the chance of getting a carpet-bag or valise to carry.
Very well, you may take this;" and the valise was passed over to Ben.
If he did not care enough for the valise to do this, Ben would not be responsible.
To the best of my information, the man who employed you is a noted burglar, and this valise contains his tools.
The valise which he carried proved to be considerably heavier than would have been imagined from its size.
He found the owner of the valise already in waiting.
Have the kindness to accompany me to the station-house, and I'll take a look into that valise of yours.
Ben started, and he nearly let fall the valise from his hand.
She never dreamed of associating the young gentleman, her mistress's brother, with the ragged and dirty boy who had brought the valise for Master Charles.
The men say he had had money and a valise filled with things which he strove to keep from sight of any of his fellows.
He had good clothes and things that he put in a trunk and expressed back to Averill, keeping only a valisefull of underwear, etc.
He would put you in a set of twenty-seven volumes of the History of the World for fifty-three dollars, or he would open hisvalise and sell you a ready-reckoner for six bits.
Morgan had not been a paying guest in that house two days before the somber domestic tragedy that it roofed was as plain to him as if he had it printed and bound, and in his valise along with the compendiums of his valuable assortment.
But though I was neither a rogue nor a highwayman, I took up my valise and proceeded into the street, feeling like one whose dignity was never to be restored to him.
Elated that he was a minister, our hero took up his valise and straightway proceeded to the Gilmore House, since it would not do for so famous a diplomatist to put up at one of your shabby hotels.
Nan set down the valise she had taken up and was about to go around to the back yard when some excited cries were heard.
And we'll look after Flossie and Freddie," added Bert With this promise, Sam thought it would be all right to go down to the wreck and help the stranger look for the valise he had left near his seat in the car.
But she was wondering at the same time whether she had better take the black valise or the yellow, and whether William George would be likely to have plenty of flaxseed in the house.
We'll travel light--just our provisions and a valise containing our wedding garments.
There was some awful mistake somewhere, for it could not be possible that there were two girls in Croyden who looked exactly like the photograph reposing in my valise at that very moment.
The valise contained Dick's tickets and most of his money.
The valise was also gone, and from the fact that Dick did not have it when he awoke in the box, it was probably stolen.
The ambulance doctor temporarily dressed the boy's injury and placed him in the vehicle, together with a valise the boy had with him.
This bicycle and a small valise were his whole belongings.
The valise was London made, and the contents were British; but the man himself was undoubtedly an American.
As they had no servants with them, each carried a small valise attached to his saddle.
All was ready, for the valise had been previously placed inside it by the porter, together with a couple of firelocks.
So the whole party quitted the castle by the private entrance, and followed by the gate-porter carrying the prince's valise proceeded towards the shore.
He placed thisvalise on a chair by his bed-side, and always had the key about him.
Jean Valjean placed these clothes and her shoes and stockings, with a quantity of camphor and other odorous drugs with which convents abound, in a small valise which he managed to procure.
Bennett put down his valise quickly, and, steadying himself against the wall, leaned heavily against it, drawing a deep breath, his eyes closing.
On the day that Lloyd returned to the house on Calumet Square (Hattie's recovery being long since assured), and while she was unpacking her valise and settling herself again in her room, a messenger boy brought her a note.
Bennett picked up his valise again and went upstairs to the rooms that had been set apart for him.
As he closed the front door behind him and stood for a moment in the hallway, his valise in his hand, he saw, hanging upon one of the pegs of the hat-rack, the hat Ferriss had last worn.
Pack a light valise with a change; put my pistols in the pockets of the carriage, and you will be there ready to see me off.
So, while I was wondering what to do about it, she headed right in, leaving me with the valise and the umberella, and a kind of qualmy feeling that the old lady might strike a snag.
The old lady took a little spell of rest on a packing-case; then she gave me her umberella and valise to take back to quarters, and, rolling up her sleeves, made like she was going into the hospital again.
Another time in New Orleans, I was crossing the levee late one night with a valise full of money, when two men came from behind a cotton bale and started toward me.
That broke up the game, as that was all the money, except what the man with the valise and I had, and he got cold, for the money he was playing with belonged to the Government.
Each of us grabbed a valiseexcept Pinch, who carried along the faro tools.
I went to his room, and found an old-fashioned valise that held his tools.
Then I gave my valise to the porter and told him to have it ready to go off at Donaldsonville.
There is a combination of banana and the leather smell of a valise containing food, that is to many people an immediate emetic.
He put the valise on the bench near her, quickly whipped out a cigarette, lighted it, and raising his hat, silently walked toward the other door.
The mother seated herself on the bench opposite the peasant and looked around--her valise was not in sight.
Is there anything in yourvalise beside the printed matter?
The mother trembled, pushed her valise farther under the bench, and throwing her shawl over her head, hurried to the door.
This attentive eye pricked her; the hand in which she held the valise trembled; she felt a dull pain in her shoulder, and the load suddenly grew heavy.
She hastened to give away the last bundles; but when her hand let itself down into the valise it met another strange hand.
Forgotten was the valise with the books and newspapers.
When the mother opened the door for her she threw a little yellow valise on the floor, and quickly seizing Vlasova's hand, asked: "Are you the mother of Pavel Mikhaylovich?
Several times a month, dressed as a nun or as a peddler of laces or small linen articles, as a rich merchant's wife or a religious pilgrim, she rode or walked about with a sack on her back, or a valise in her hand.
She held the valise lightly in her hand; it was not large, and she walked with raised head, scanning the faces that flashed before her.
A young man entered with a yellow valise in his hand, quickly looked around, and walked straight to the mother.
The ex-sergeant married a marchande de modes, and set up a small drapery shop, but so humble was this venture that the future Marshal had to carry his stock in a valise on his back, and trudge from fair to fair to peddle his wares.
As we were crossing the Platte River, in transferring the baggage to the boat, my valise fell into the river.
He was very careful of his valiseand umbrella, bringing them in with his own hands, and resisting, pertinaciously, all offers from the various servants to relieve him of them.
I put myvalise down on the floor and was going out, when he asked me if my clothes were marked.
Then Griswold opened his valise and took out a large brunette bottle of liniment marked "for external use.
With a proud heart the cashier of the Boy Settlers paid their bill at the hotel, and reclaimed their valise from the porter, with whom they had lodged it in the morning before going out.
Charlie was certain that no hotel clerk would be willing to give them board and lodging, penniless wanderers as they were, with nothing but one small valise to answer as luggage for the party.
Mr. Arbuton's valise was sent for at night from the Hôtel St. Louis, and they did not see him again.
He had his valise carried up at once, and then he went to the post-office to see if he had any letters, offering to ask also for Colonel Ellison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "valise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
