portemonnaie

• “Mrs. Mackenzie briskly shut her portemonnaie, and rose up from table, quivering with indignant virtue.”

  The Newcomes

• “Upon putting my hand in my pocket for my portemonnaie, lo!”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

• “I had none, not a kreutzer to my name, and my portemonnaie contained also my return railway-ticket!”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

• “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”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866

• “Ann, thinking an orange would moisten her throat, felt for her portemonnaie, and found it not; for, while she was so intently looking”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

• “The box was in my inner pocket, the letter in a portemonnaie.”

  Rupert of Hentzau

• “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?”

  Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

• “I found my watch in these other trousers, and putting a hand in a pocket, fished out also my portemonnaie.”

  The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive

• “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.”

  A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike

• “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.”

  A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike

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