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Corliss, keeping step with them, looked over the crowd speculatively and felt into his jacket-pocket.
CHAPTER 29 2010
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Not something you just happen to have on you, in the jacket-pocket or shoulder-bag pharmaceutical cache: paracetamol for those strip-lighting headaches, antihistamine for the occasional bout of hay fever, and cyanide in case you suddenly feel the need to top yourself and aren't going to get home for hours.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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She was rummaging about in her jacket-pocket for something, and started slightly when she became aware of Mona's presence.
Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission E.R. Burden
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The old seaman knocked the ashes out of his pipe, which he had smoked at intervals in short puffs, put it in his jacket-pocket, and got off the windlass end.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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He drew out from his jacket-pocket the thing which he had fetched.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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They searched everything, even prying loose the soles of his boots; and, of course, one of the first things they found was the red card in the inside jacket-pocket.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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So Button-Bright laid the contents of his left jacket-pocket on the table.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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"In the lefthand jacket-pocket," said the little Pink Bear.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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They drew a red rag from his bulging jacket-pocket, and wiped the worst of the blood away.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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They drew a red rag from his bulging jacket-pocket, and wiped the worst of the blood away.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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