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Examples

  • Oh yea, a man-sack is called a brief-case, in old skool days.

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  • It's spring in Washington, and Ari Ne'e-man, with his navy suit and leather brief-case on wheels, is in between his usual flurry of meetings.

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  • The heavy brief-case that he was carrying bumped against his knee at each step, sending a tingling sensation up and down the skin of his leg.

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  • He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the brief-case.

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  • On the following day you will go to work without your brief-case.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • At some time during the day, in the street, a man will touch you on the arm and say “I think you have dropped your brief-case.”

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  • He took the brief-case abstractedly, without speaking.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • He thought of a man whom he had passed in the street a few weeks back; a quite ordinary-looking man, a Party member, aged thirty-five to forty, tallish and thin, carrying a brief-case.

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  • Winston, still carrying the brief-case containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.

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  • On the following day you will go to work without your brief-case.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

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