"The scoundrels wanted these, that's evident," he responded, holding up the small, strong, leather hand-bag he was carrying, and which contained his jealously-guarded ciphers.

Presently the door opened and Catrina came quickly out, followed by a servant carrying a small hand-bag.

They were hardly tucked in when Saul appeared with a valise in one hand and a large trunk on his shoulder, swinging both on to a wood-sled that stood near by as easily as if they had been hand-bags.

The restless hands fumbled in the hand-bag.

She stopped at sight of him and held up the little hand-bag which hung from her wrist.

He was searching in his hand-bag for something else.

We mayn't carry hand-bags, or open carriage-doors, or turn cart-wheels, oror do anything to earn a living.

Having seen that all his luggage was safely bestowed, the stranger in the fur coat paid the porter, and, telling the cabman to wait until he returned, he walked away in the direction of the waiting-rooms, still carrying his small hand-bag.

Wearing his hat and carrying a hand-bag, he seems merely to have looked in while passing.)

(She routs in a small hand-bag.)

Their hand-bags were hung up, their rolls of shawls disposed beneath their feet, and Mrs. Linceford had taken out her novel.

She stripped off her suit and blouse, slipped on a pongee kimono that she got out of her hand-bag, unlocked her trunk and began discharging its contents all about the room.

A well-dressed, dark, bushy-bearded man stood there carrying a hand-bag, which he placed on the ledge before him.

He marched down the street, his shoulders swinging rhythmically to the weight of the burden he carriedhis black leather hand-bag and the shiny tan sample case, battle-scarred, both, from many encounters with ruthless porters and 'bus men and bell boys.

There was a stir in the forward vestibule, and the porter came in with a hand-bag.

All their hand-bags, rugs, and belongings were to remain in the berths, just as they lay.

M. Floçon opened the hand-bag, seeking for further evidence; but found nothing of importance,only loose collars, cuffs, a sponge and slippers, two Italian newspapers of an earlier date.

Sticking the pins through her straw hat, dyed black, she took from the bottom drawer of the cupboard a patent-leather hand-bag with colourful worsted fruit embroidered upon its shining sides.

On an armchair near the window she laid her traveling coat, then her hand-bag, and her hat and veil.

In cars magnificently upholstered, padded, and cushioned were piled trunks, hand-bags, dressing-cases.

But scattered about the room were traces of numerous students: hand-bags, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in another a prettily bound copy of News from Nowhere, a book oddly at variance with its surroundings.

She herself was in green of a subtle olive shade, and her plumes and boa, her chains and chatelaine, her hand-bags and camera, marked her as the traveler triumphant and expectant.

Now, unhampered even by a hand-bag, I joyfully descended the steps at the north end of the bridge and headed for King's Bench Walk by way of the Embankment and Middle Temple Lane.

But a cloud blacker than the heaviest fog came down upon me, for while we was standing on the deck, expecting every minute to land, a man came along and shouted at the top of his voice that no baggage could be examined by the custom-house officers after six o'clock, and the passengers could take nothing ashore with them but their hand-bags, and must come back in the morning and have their baggage examined.

Jone didn't carry any hand-bag, and I had only a little one which had in it three newspapers, which we bought from the pilot, a tooth-brush, a spool of thread and some needles, and a pair of scissors with one point broken off.