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  • The first phalanx of hail popped against his tin roof as he rubbed a purse's tight leather between his hands, ran its thin, tan neck through his fingers.

    Lifting Peter Kispert 2011

  • But the heart of a steal was always the wallet, any purse's beating pulse.

    Lifting Peter Kispert 2011

  • They say Marquez jumped into a car and took off, dragging Sousa, who was tangled up in the purse's strap.

    Transient Arrested In ASU Student's Dragging Death AP 2010

  • Worse still, they are allowing £30,000 of the public purse's hard earned money to go unjustified to a terrorist-affiliated, jihadist organisation.

    £30,000 Question 2009

  • Natalia took her beaded bag from the table beside her cigarettes and lighter, using the mirror in the purse's flap to look toward the door beside the bar.

    The Arsenal Ahern, Jerry 1988

  • Perhaps he used the purse's contents for the more pressing claim of the great Palace of which he built so large a part; perhaps he handed it, still filled, to

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • Jacob Fuller, the bridegroom, is twenty-six years old, is of an old but unconsidered family which had by compulsion emigrated from Sedgemoor, and for King James's purse's profit, so everybody said -- some maliciously the rest merely because they believed it.

    A Double-Barreled Detective Story 1902

  • Jacob Fuller, the bridegroom, is twenty-six years old, is of an old but unconsidered family which had by compulsion emigrated from Sedgemoor, and for King James's purse's profit, so everybody said -- some maliciously the rest merely because they believed it.

    A Double Barrelled Detective Story Mark Twain 1872

  • When a man for his health's sake, or his purse's sake, or any other good reason, drinks less liquor than he might if he chose, he abstains from liquor.

    Sermons on National Subjects Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Consumer products market researcher Kelley Styring, author of "In Your Purse: Archaeology of the American Handbag," says the purse's role as a "giant junk drawer" can definitely make it a dangerous place.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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