I am thinking first of what awaits us on the further shore, on which the lights are coming out, and of those interesting passes inviting us to G.H.Q. as "Government Guests," which lie safe in our handbags.

" "Has one of them a brown velvet hat with a pink rose at the front and brown gaiters and mink furs and a perfectly lovely velvet handbag?" asked Betty.

When I got down here, I helped the local police to go through everythingwe even searched the linings of his clothing and ripped his one handbag to pieces.

The course which I adopted is known to you with the attendant circumstances, even to the accidental detachment of the right handwhich broke off as I was packing the arm in my handbag.

The tone in which he had said to Louisa, "Take Mrs. Cannon's handbag, Louisa," had been a marvel of ease.

The spacious old library on the second flooryou know it, Dominie, smelt of disuse, as we entered, Ned's servant bringing up the rear with a handbag.

The handbag lay open on the desk, surrounded by a respectable-sized fortune in bank-notes.

"Got any gold handbags?"

He examined them carefully, placing each after due scrutiny in a small handbag, in which he had brought down the bonds I was to receive.

In the midst of this discourse Thorndyke placed chairs for the two ladies, and, leaning against the mantelpiece, fixed a stony gaze upon the small handbag that hung from Mrs. Hornby's wrist.

Not that these handbags are really very secure, you know, although I daresay they are safer than pockets, especially now that it is the fashion to have the pocket at the back.

She took up her small handbag and her umbrella and opened the door with caution.

The baggage wagon had brought the trunks, and when she had paid her bill, they were delivered at the outer wharf-end, where also arrived at about the same time a miscellaneous assortment of supplies from the store and a Japanese with her two handbags.

"The rats were chased out of camp and their skins tanned and made into dainty purses and handbags.

" Ned took a handbag from under the burlap.

Then Ned put away his handbag and began an examination of the large suitcase, which contained the larger repairs for the motorcycles.

I was so quick that, with a few things scrambled into a handbag, I was ready in two shakes of a jiffy, whatever that may be, and had only time to give a hasty grip to the hands of the two friends who had gone along many roads with me in this adventure of war, watching its amazing dramas.

In order to beguile the time while waiting for the train, Freya took from her handbag a gold cigarette-case and the light smoke of Egyptian tobacco charged with opium whirled among the shafts of sunlight from the partly-opened windows.

The next morning when Migwan came to school she saw a conspicuous notice on the Bulletin Board: LOST: Handbag containing book of lecture notes and ticket for Saturday afternoon's performance of "The Bluebird."

It was a lady's handbag.

"It's all right, Mayou let me," said one of the daughters, hitting her mother's bonnet with a handbag she struggled to put in the rack.

Shawls, handbags, umbrellas, cloaks, and trunk were packed and strapped and carried off below.

" She moved away quickly, dropping her handbag and having to stoop for it.

She went off to her work in a defiant frame of mind, carrying, however, the letter with her in her handbag.

Into this car we climbed with our handbags, and beheld on the same seat with Mrs. Jimmie a beautiful woman in a gown unmistakably from Paris, who looked so familiar that we could scarcely keep from staring her out of countenance.