64 adjectives to describe pursing

His resolution to go being taken, and having been obliged to dip somewhat deeply into the little purse he had set aside for European expenses to help a kinsman in distress, the Colonel's departure came somewhat sooner than he had expected.

a handsome silken purse, too, with Beulah's name on it.

" "You're like the old woman with the magic purse.

Then slowly he drew forth his fat purse and threw it upon the cloth in front of him.

Under the Bourbon kings of France more than one half of the produce of the land was taken by the Government and the feudal proprietors without compensation, and that not in provision for coming national trouble, but for the fattening of the royal purse.

The proprietor of the inn looked at them suspiciously for a moment, and then, as if doubting their ability to remunerate him for his accommodations, asked: "Have you money to pay for that which you ask?" "I have," and the mysterious stranger drew from an inside pocket of his blouse a heavy leathern purse.

Each must be gently born and gently trained, but in such position that the education freely given should be a relief and aid to a slender parental purse.

True, he has in his hands our portionsthe patrimony which our father gave us, with which he lies fatting himself with sack and sugar in the house, and we are fain to walk with lean purses abroad.

empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.

a handsome silken purse, too, with Beulah's name on it.

Up to this time he had only asked for an inexhaustible purse, power to call up the Devil ad libitum, and a ring of invisibility to allow him free access to his mistress, who was unfortunately a married woman.

Each must be gently born and gently trained, but in such position that the education freely given should be a relief and aid to a slender parental purse.

Moreover, the reward recorded in the King's privy-purse accounts "to hym that founde the new ile," and the wording, thrice repeated, of the second letters-patent, "the land and isles of late found by the said John," indicate that it was not at that time known whether the mainland of Cathay had been reached, or, as in the discoveries of Columbus, islands upon the coast of Asia.

Things became so feverish that for the sake of rest and peace the house-party proposed to contribute to a joint purse for the return of the dog, as even, nuisance as it was, it was not so bad as having their visit spoiled by Miss Arnett's abandonment to grief and crossness.

Clotilde, who spent very little, had never thought of asking a separate purse for herself.

" He was folding the bills carefully and placing them in a shabby purse while Sharpman looked down on him with undisguised ill will.

At a very special one of these concerts, dedicated to the meager purses of just these, and held in New York's super-opera-house, the Amphitheater, a great bowl of humanity, the metaphor made perfect by tiers of seats placed upon the stage, rose from orchestra to dome.

Lazy Lawrence, Simple Susan, and a score more of excellently conceived characters, might never have been called from chaos to influence thousands of tender minds, but for André's narrow purse.

Cordelia hurriedly put on her own, and, opening her cupboard, she unlocked a doll trunk, taking out a tiny purse for coins, whose portly sides bespoke some wealth within.

The Transient seemed to have a bottomless purse.

And his poor worn purse gets the worst of it.

It was Boone's liberal purse that paid the expenses of the memorable campaign in the Warchester district, wherein the Democrats were first shaken in their hold.

On Christmas Day an American, himself a smoker, thinking what class of children he could make happiest on a limited purse, remembered the ring around the stove and bought a basket of cheap brier pipes and tobacco.

long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets; purse of Fortunatus [Lat.]; embarras de richesses [Fr.].

Add to this the other sums he scattered to poor artists like Wagner from his meagre purse, and you will see one reason why women, who are more susceptible and perceptive of such qualities of character, were almost as helpless to resist Liszt's personality as he theirs.

64 adjectives to describe  pursing