The monks' dark robes were covered with dust and torn by briers, and the two holy men made slow progress owing to the heavy wallets full of provisions which they were carrying on their backs.
Driving the ass before him, he arrived safely with the wallets at the convent and left his comrade to his fate.
The bulging saddle-bags had been made fast behind the cantle and the wallets strapped upon the horn.
Here again the saddle-bags and wallets had been filled and adjusted.
This grieved sorely both knight and squire, for not only did all Don Quixote's bones ache from the stoning he had undergone, but somehow or other their wallets had been also lost, and it was many hours since they had broken their fast.
Meanwhile, I will give you money wherewith to provide all that is needful for our journeying, and take heed that you bring wallets with you.
The wallets were empty of corn, the men were fainting with famine, when lo!
God knows we went with parched corn only in our wallets and depended on our rifles for the rest.
Large bags or wallets are also made of kangaroo skins, with the fur outside, and small ones of the skins of lesser animals with the fur inside.
They had thrown away their walletsand guns and used their ramrods as whips.
John Dixon, who kept a house of entertainment here and had sent his family to Galena for safety, joined us and hauled our wallets of corn and grub in his wagon, which was a great help.
As the women could not be fetched back before nightfall, the farmer had despatched a man for some of this food and the walletson the saddle were filled with sufficient to last Malcolm for three or four days.
They now took from their wallets the bread which they had brought away with them.
Outposts were planted, hidden by the trees; sentries were placed over the prisoners, whose bonds were not unloosed, and the men opened their wallets to partake of a hasty meal.
You see, we were all out for exercise, and not on the march, with our wallets full.
When supplies ran short they put wallets on their backs and went out on their turn to seek for the necessaries of life, and were never refused abundant supplies by the people.
They were carried in leathern wallets slung from the girdle, and sometimes in covers, or cases of wood, strengthened and adorned with metallic rims and clasps.
They were then at the appointed place a full hour before the time named, with wallets containing their clothes, and a basket of provisions that their mother had prepared for them.
Now, young sirs," Master Lirriper said, "if you will get your wallets we will go ashore at once.
These bottles we carried in our wallets in front of our saddles, and after a parting drink and cheery good-night we rode gaily away.
Unbuckling my wallet straps, for I had them on my saddle, although I had left the wallets themselves behind me, I carefully fastened my carbine across the pommel of the saddle and also crossed the stirrups.
Next morning, with their wallets filled with the best cigars, and their flasks full of the best cognac, they rode gaily away on their quest, and, bedad!
They dined, placed their wallets upon their shoulders, and went their way.
I have met them with their wallets made of goat-skin upon their shoulders, walking at a regular pace, which is not altered by rough or smooth.
The landlord, it is true, retained his wallets in payment of what was due to him; but Sancho never missed them in the hurry of his departure.
They wore long dark coloured gowns, and sheep-skin coats: rough boots of untanned leather protected their feet, and by their side hung wallets to contain their food.
They let them come in, and fed them, and took no money from them, but even filled their wallets with bread, and now and then with flat cakes.
Many had reached America, and strove with energetic swords and rapacious wallets to wrest blood and gold and fame from whatsoever source they might.
Nor do I fear to say it even here, that those men who seek his downfall would as lief line their wallets with Spanish doubloons as with honest Louis d'or.
His huge caped coat appeared to have immense pockets, into which those precious wallets disappeared one by one.
Whereupon he walked quickly up to the bed and from under the mattress extricated five leather wallets which he threw one by one upon the table.
The wallets contained the money--twenty-five millions in notes and drafts--a godsend to the King if the usurper did succeed in driving him out of the Tuileries.
The thief, feeling himself unmasked, gave up his stolen booty; I forced him to his knees, and five wallets containing twenty-five million francs were safely in my pockets at last.
Comte, aided by Hector, was arranging for the disposal of leather wallets underneath the cushions of the carriage.
The leather wallets which he found, he examined with utmost coolness, seeing indeed that they were stuffed full of banknotes and drafts.
Let me therefore beg of you, good youths, to look within your pilgrims' wallets and see whether it has strayed into one of them in error.
Thereupon all the pilgrims sprang to their nimble feet, opened their wallets and showed Nikitich what they contained, but the royal cup was not to be found among the forty.
Then having satisfied their heroic hunger, they called down a blessing upon Prince Vladimir and upon Princess Apraxia, swung their walletsover their shoulders and set out for the holy city of Jerusalem.
Open your wallets and show him what they contain, for we can do this without fear.
So the one-and-forty pilgrims placed their staves in damp Mother Earth and hung their wallets upon them.
Another embassage is sent, and again the lean wallets return still flabby.
Their wallets and various other items revealed little.
Others were clothed entirely in the coarse linen of which the trousers and wallets of all were made, and showed nothing that was distinctive of the new order of civilization.
The wallets of these men seemed to be better than those of their companions, and several of them added to their marching outfit a flask, probably full of brandy, slung round their necks by a bit of twine.
For a long time, even when the eggs of the others have been hatched for some weeks past, the mothers come daily to the threshold of the burrow and hold out theirwallets for incubation by the sun.
The thick material of the wallets is enough to protect the eggs from the inclemencies of the winter, especially from damp.
The saddle, bridle, and wallets were quickly put on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
