Mrs. Mackenzie briskly shut her portemonnaie, and rose up from table, quivering with indignant virtue. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Ann, thinking an orange would moisten her throat, felt for her portemonnaie, and found it not; for, while she was so intently looking ❋ Various (N/A)
In the country there are so many lurking-places, particularly in going through woods, whence a robber might pounce upon you all of a sudden and demand your life, or your portemonnaie, or your watch, or your rings, or something, that Miss ❋ Various (N/A)
Upon putting my hand in my pocket for my portemonnaie, lo! ❋ Various (N/A)
I had none, not a kreutzer to my name, and my portemonnaie contained also my return railway-ticket! ❋ Various (N/A)
The box was in my inner pocket, the letter in a portemonnaie. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)
If you were to hand me your _portemonnaie_ now, full of notes and gold, and let me walk into the street with it, do you doubt that I should return? ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
I found my watch in these other trousers, and putting a hand in a pocket, fished out also my portemonnaie. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
The waiter had friends and fellow-conspirators, the boy had none, and when a grab was made for his portemonnaie he backed against the stone wall and whipped out his pygmy six-shooter. ❋ Charles King (1888)
Miss Wallen consulted a memorandum on her desk, gravely searched through her portemonnaie, found some small coin and a two-dollar bill, then as gravely took two of the bills and handed him the ten, the two, and the small change. ❋ Charles King (1888)
Presently she stored her change in the little portemonnaie and picked up her bundles. ❋ Charles King (1888)
There was no use in remonstrating with Rufe, -- everything that came within his eccentric orbit seemed to realize that, -- and the deedie was contentedly nestling down in his pocket, apparently resigned to lead the life of a portemonnaie. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
And she kissed him, and put the bill in a little bit of a portemonnaie with a gay laugh. ❋ Various (1885)
She saw without looking that her mother pressed a little clasp; heard, without wanting to, the sharp click that marked the closing portemonnaie from which something had been taken. ❋ Henry James (1879)
And in his off-hand fashion Tom drew from his water-soaked pocket his portemonnaie, remarking to Jim that they would arrange it between themselves, and handed the exact change to the somewhat surprised bartender and clerk. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)
Then the old scamp began to turn over in his brain a scheme which seemed to offer him a fair way of approaching Mr. Tom Bannister's pocket and the portemonnaie of Phyllis as well. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
By tens, by twenties, by fifties, and by hundreds the dollars of the ambitious citizens of the little metropolis were charmed into the portemonnaie of this rattlesnake of a lobbyist. ❋ Nathaniel Parker Willis (1875)
Swiftly these reflections flashed through her mind, and, determining that her first application should be in answer to the advertisment, she cut it out, placed it carefully in her portemonnaie, hurriedly made the few preparations needed, and sallied out to seek the address indicated. ❋ Unknown (1869)
