When the exerciseswhich were of a very tame character, being more for style than speedwere over, and just as the crowd were about to return to the city, a purse of $250 was made up, to be given to the horse that could first reach Wyandotte, four miles distant.

There was a purse in the inside coat pocket containing two bills, one for ten dollars and one for five, and there were two or three dollars in silver and four five-centime pieces in a small coin purse which he carried in his trousers' pocket.

She boarded a Seventh Avenue street-car, extracting the ten-cent piece from her purse with a great show of well-being, sat back against the carpet-covered, lengthwise seat, her red hands, with the cut forefinger bound in rag, folded over her waist.

Sentences: I am afraid that our son the purse from the gentleman.

We will flood his throat with good canary and send him home with crowns in his purse for every penny he hath.

Get me?" he said, poking the small purse into the V of her jacket.

Here's her purse on the dresser, too.

It contained, however, the usual allusions to harvest-homes, gathering into barns, and laying up treasures; which last observation reminded Mr. Goodman that he had left his purse at home, and had come away without any money.

Here's for thee," and tossing a purse to Beltane's feet, he rode upon his way.

She was a little, plucky, pale-faced thing whom you called instinctively by her first name at the end of half an houra sort of little mother of loose-ended men, who can make silk purses out of sows' ears, and wouldn't know how to brag if she were tempted.

Mr. L., the young Irish barrister, told me at Dijon that he left his purse by mistake in a shop there in which were 20 napoleons in gold, when a soldier of the army of the Loire, who happened to be in the shop, perceived it and came running after him with it, but refused to accept of anything, tho' much pressed by Mr. L., who wished to reward him handsomely for his disinterested conduct.

One day, she dropped her purse without knowing it, and Jim picked it up, and brought it home in his mouth.

For one thing, they were more free with their purses than his older cronies.

"One only adds to the number as one goes on; just as one adds to a little purse against the change of fortune, eh?"

She marvelled at what life was, and hid the purse like a shame.

She had left the purse about in her rooms in Coniston Mansions, or there were many other places in which an expert thief would have found it a very easy matter to remove the little bundle and replace it with that roll of paper which she found in its place.

Our mess gave a purse towards the games.

They place both the sword and the purse under its control.

Whenever Bassanio wanted money, Anthonio assisted him; and it seemed as if they had but one heart and one purse between them.

"Give this to your master, sweetheart," replied Wyvil, slipping a purse through the grating; "and tell him that two gentlemen desire to consult him.

He was even so careless and forgetful as to leave his purse behind him, and found, on reaching the ferry, that he had barely two dollars in his pocket.

" "Mistress," replies he, humbly, "here is all I could raise upon such sudden notice"laying his purse before her.

Even in that one small room there were enough things of price to buy a release from her most pressing cares; and the great house, in which the room was a mere cell, and the other greater house in Burgundy, held treasures to deplete even such a purse as Moffatt's.

But he immediately recovered an air of indifference, took off the red Levantine cap which hung like a great purse over his left ear, and pushing back his long, dark brown curls, said smiling, "The fact is, I'm a stranger in Florence, and when I came in footsore last night, I preferred flinging myself in the corner of this hospitable porch to hunting for a chance hostelry, which might turn out to be a nest of bloodsuckers.

" He flipped the purse across to her and sauntered into his bedroom.