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  • Bridget took back my cellphone, passed me my night-bag and watched me while I checked its contents: socks, handkerchiefs, shirts, underpants, a sponge-bag, one grey pullover with V-neck.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Fetching my shaving kit from the bathroom, I confirmed with perverse satisfaction that the blue sponge-bag with the teddy-bear in which Penelope kept what she archly called her Press Kit was still missing from its shelf: just what every girl needs for a weekend with a flock of high-flying advertisers in Sussex.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Fetching my shaving kit from the bathroom, I confirmed with perverse satisfaction that the blue sponge-bag with the teddy-bear in which Penelope kept what she archly called her Press Kit was still missing from its shelf: just what every girl needs for a weekend with a flock of high-flying advertisers in Sussex.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • William was one of twenty-one prefects, distinguishable by their dress of ‘sponge-bag’ trousers—similar to chinos—stiff wing collar and white bow tie, braid-edged black tailcoat and a colourful waistcoat of their choosing.

    WILLIAM Tim Graham 2003

  • William was one of twenty-one prefects, distinguishable by their dress of ‘sponge-bag’ trousers—similar to chinos—stiff wing collar and white bow tie, braid-edged black tailcoat and a colourful waistcoat of their choosing.

    WILLIAM Tim Graham 2003

  • William was one of twenty-one prefects, distinguishable by their dress of ‘sponge-bag’ trousers—similar to chinos—stiff wing collar and white bow tie, braid-edged black tailcoat and a colourful waistcoat of their choosing.

    WILLIAM Tim Graham 2003

  • I used to walk up, under the walls, swinging my sponge-bag, through the dusk.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • I caught the eleven twenty-five to Norway the next morning with the knife wrapped in polythene in my sponge-bag; or rather the black zipped leather case which did that duty.

    Slay Ride Francis, Dick, 1920- 1974

  • Well, I had my bath-towel over my arm and my sponge-bag in the other hand, so, when I slipped, I was a bit helpless, you see.

    Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964

  • You cap was used once in your bathroom at home as a sponge-bag.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 Various

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