Portmantle

Word PORTMANTLE
Character 10
Hyphenation port man tle
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "portmantle" in example sentences

‘Or I might have brought my portmantle, with some things.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Order our horses presently; I will wear, as formerly, one of the livery cloaks, and ride before the portmantle. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He then aided him to fasten on the saddle the small portmantle which contained his necessaries, opened a postern door, and with a hearty shake of the hand, and a reiteration of his promise to attend to what went on at Cumnor ❋ Unknown (2004)

_Enter Aimwell in a riding-habit, and Archer as footman, carrying a portmantle_. ❋ George Farquhar (N/A)

It was their duty to examine outgoing vessels which had weighed anchor with the intention of leaving our waters, and they were instructed to search the "pocket, cloake, bag, portmantle or any other thing belonging" to such persons as were on their journey out of the jurisdiction on horseback. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Producing a small box from a battered portmantle that stood in a corner, he produced certain pigments from it, and, facing a cracked fragment of unframed looking-glass that served for a mirror, proceeded with the skill of an experienced actor to make certain changes in his appearance. ❋ Unknown (1898)

'Or I might have brought my portmantle, with some things.' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

That portmantle didn't cost more than three half-crowns altogether, and ten pound wouldn't ha 'got anything so strong from a portmantle maker, would it, Dan?' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

He fetched a portmantle just come, and an order to put me in a room alone. ❋ Unknown (1871)

"But the Honourable is dhressing too, sir; and that's why he wants the portmantle." ❋ Samuel Lover (1832)

"I beg your pardon, sir, but I kem for the jintleman's portmantle." ❋ Samuel Lover (1832)

-- Order our horses presently; I will wear, as formerly, one of the livery cloaks, and ride before the portmantle. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

And the mansworn villains now want to put a disgrace on him, and say that he fled the country rather than face them! — a likely story — fled the country for them! — and leave his bill unsettled — him that was sae regular — and his portmantle and his fishing-rod and the pencils and pictures he held sic a wark about! — ❋ Unknown (2008)

She'll no 'mind me, but I carried her portmantle once, tae the Glasgow coach. " ❋ Unknown (2010)

That portmantle didn’t cost more than three half-crowns altogether, and ten pound wouldn’t ha’ got anything so strong from a portmantle maker, would it, ❋ Unknown (2006)

-- and leave his bill unsettled -- him that was sae regular -- and his portmantle and his fishing-rod and the pencils and pictures he held sic a wark about! ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"It belongs to that man whose seat you've got," said Yuba Bill, who, for insulting purposes of his own, preferred to establish the fiction that Wiles was an interloper; "and ef he reckons, in a sorter mixed kempeny like this, to lock up his portmantle, I don't know who's business it is. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

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