lucky-bag

Not that I can complain; I drew a prize in the lucky-bag when I took that old Jawkins in there.

Australia Felix 2003

Therefore, each hopeful believer exerted himself to the utmost, and "poor peasants and farmers, cottagers and their masters, threw their stakes into the claimant's lucky-bag, from which they were afterwards to draw 'all prizes and no blanks.'"

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

Well, I got down from the driver's seat, opened and shut the door as though to be sure that neither the one nor the other was hiding under the seat, and then I rang loudly at the front door bell and waited to see what fortune had got in her lucky-bag.

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

"They'll reckon they've got a lucky-bag," he said weakly.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"There is little to find now," said Hutton, as they passed through the gates; "the Market has become one of the weekly fashionable gatherings of the town, and is dredged by dealers from all over England, who look on it as a sort of lucky-bag -- but the bag is nearly empty."

The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma 1884

_ -- 'A regular lucky-bag, in which you may pick at random and find good things. '

Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878

I never would play, on Hallo'-e'en night, at any thing else but douking for apples, burning nuts, pulling kail-runts, foul water and clean, drapping the egg, or trying who was to be your sweetheart out of the lucky-bag.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

I never would play, on Hallo'-'een night, at anything else but douking for apples, burning nuts, pulling kail-runts, foul water and clean, drapping the egg, or trying who was to be your sweetheart out of the lucky-bag.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824