431 examples of pouches in sentences
When, at last, the table was cleared, except for the granite-ware basin full of punch, and when all available cups were mustered and tobacco-pouches came out, a remarkably genial spirit pervaded the companywith three exceptions.
Several men turned back suddenly, and several pouches were held out, but nobody met Butts' eyes.
His usually florid face was drawn and haggard, his cheeks hung in ugly lines, there were dark pouches under his eyes, and the eyes themselves were blood-shot.
After he had so besought the Saint for a time, he bade the friars feel in their pouches and see if the Saint had sent them anything; so each put his hand slowly in the pouch that hung beside him, but brought nothing thence.
"Nay, I warrant there is somewhat that hath crept into the seams of your pouches, and so ye ha' missed it.
All about this lusty rogue dangled divers pouches and bags of different sizes and kinds, a dozen or more, with great, wide, gaping mouths, like a brood of hungry daws.
Methinks thy bags and pouches are fat and lusty for such thin fare.
But tell me truly, what hast thou in thy pouches?" "Why," quoth the Beggar, peeping into the mouths of his bags, "I find here a goodly piece of pigeon pie, wrapped in a cabbage leaf to hold the gravy.
So Robin, with all the empty road to himself, strode along whistling merrily, his bags and pouches bobbing and dangling at his thighs.
So, after a while, the Corn Engrosser came riding up to where Robin sat; whereupon merry Robin stepped straightway forth, in all his rags and tatters, his bags and pouches dangling about him, and laid his hand upon the horse's bridle rein, calling upon the other to stop.
The soldiers turned themselves round so that the cartridges might be taken from their pouches.
They gave them swords and cartridge-pouches.
But how to get the liquor out of Mohune's vault I know not; and that reminds me, I have something in my pouches for Elzevir an' thee'; and with that he drew forth either lapel a great wicker-bound flask.
Under my arm hung two pouches for shot and powder; at my back I carried my basket, on my shoulder my gun, and over my head a great clumsy goat's skin umbrella.
Two broad swamps also had to be crossed, the soldiers wading waist-high in the water, and carrying their ammunition-pouches on their heads.
We underwent at the Customs house a rigid search for tobacco: they even took away the tobacco that some passengers had in their pouches.
In little pouches round his belt he carried the pointed bits of metal that the instrument shoots out quicker than arrows.
For example, only a very small proportion had pouches to carry the regulation one hundred and fifty rounds.
Behind him, impassive-faced Rowland stood watching the departing frontiersman steadily, the pouches beneath his eyes accentuated by the tightened lids.
I had another belt, not so broad, yet fastened in the same manner, which hung over my shoulder, and at the end of it, under my left arm, hung two pouches, made of goat's skin, to hold my powder and shot.
He stared at me for a moment, then at the slip, then, murmuring something about the mistake being his, began to feel in the numerous pouches of his dressing-gown, bringing to light the following items: (1) A. spanner.
He grunted with satisfaction, replaced his treasures carefully in the pouches and handed the last-named item to me.
" Three of the six pigwidgeons were workers in iron, and they had their little files and saws in pouches by their sides.
For I saw the archers instinctively draw their quarrels and bolt-pouches off their backs, to be in readiness upon their left hips.
A man let drive at me" "Oh, come, come," laughed Sir George, "Colonel Ormond has had more bullets driven at him than our Legion pouches in their bullet-bags!" "A man let drive at me!"