It is not clear what Mr. Borthwick meant here by the hold-all term “took.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
When she bent over her capacious hold-all and rummaged around in it, he glimpsed some kind of hideous milking contraption, a plastic bottle attached to a suction cap, that made him turn aside in faint disgust. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bits and pieces, odds and ends, this and that — whilst pottering about in my flat yesterday morning a single hold-all word for these vague but necessary collective terms, with special application in the kitchen, popped into my head: manavalums. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The effect is that of a slightly withered, tatty, Miss Havisham-esque hold-all. ❋ Tina Gaudoin (2011)
A hitchhiker, a tall thin fair-haired youth looking not much above twenty, wearing faded jeans and an old leather jacket and carrying a few extra clothes in a canvas hold-all. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)
He remembered Johnnie Duke putting his hold-all on the floor behind the front seats, and he remembered him leaning over to pick it up. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)
An omlette, though, is an equally generous hold-all for food bits that need uniting. ❋ Annemarie (2009)
Poppy had an enormous Mulberry hold-all full of tax cuts. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Politics is not the hold-all of a writer's thematic thrust. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Elsa, in a drab-coloured dust-coat, a grey hat with a brown gossamer veil flying from it, and yellow boots; with a little travelling-bag slung across her shoulders, and carrying a band-box and a brown-holland hold-all, on which, in red cotton, with many a flourish, was embroidered: “A pleasant journey!” ❋ Unknown (2003)
I carried the rescued folder in the hold-all and Robin showed me, a few weeks later, several short hand-written notes in Hebrew, Greek, Russian and Arabic. ❋ Francis, Dick (1999)
Amused at the mixed Darcy expression at this piece of presumption, I checked again with our pilot how our trip looked for weather as I stowed my hold-all in the cabin. ❋ Francis, Dick (1999)
I fished in my hold-all, brought out the unopened pack of four double As that I had bought with my camera and, removing the three old ones, I pushed the four new ones into place and closed the flap. ❋ Francis, Dick (1999)
Before I could make any promise, the Special Services man bustled up kindly to fetch me, and he set off at a fast walk, carrying my hold-all and telling me the aeroplane had boarded all except for me. ❋ Francis, Dick (1999)
