pencil-cases

I'm waiting one more week for deeply discounted Back-to-School pencil-cases to drop.

Minding the Gap: Performance Equipment BikeSnobNYC 2010

I wonder whether those little silver pencil-cases with a movable almanac at the butt-end are still favorite implements with boys, and whether pedlers still hawk them about the country?

Roundabout Papers 2006

In the month of June, thirty-seven years ago, I bought one of those pencil-cases from a boy whom I shall call Hawker, and who was in my form.

Roundabout Papers 2006

His pockets were never without pencil-cases, French chalk, garnet brooches, for which he was willing to bargain.

The Newcomes 2006

Those pencil-cases, as far as my memory serves me, were not of much use.

Roundabout Papers 2006

He shared his money with him: bought him uncountable presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of which latter you might read inscriptions to George Sedley

Vanity Fair 2006

Alaric made a speech, in which he said he was quite unworthy of his present happiness, and Gertrude picked up all the bijoux, gold pencil-cases, and silver cream-jugs, which were thrown at her from all sides.

The Three Clerks 2004

They were always in a hurry, and yet seemed to have nothing tangible to do; except a few of them (these, mostly asthmatic and thick-lipped) who were for ever demonstrating to the rest, with gold pencil-cases which they could hardly hold because of the big rings on their forefingers, how money was to be made.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Diamonds without their gold rings; candles without their gold candlesticks; snuff without the gold snuff-boxes; pencil-leads without the gold pencil-cases; a walking stick without its gold top; clockwork without the gold clocks — or rather watches.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Thieves would have taken the gold snuff-boxes, snuff and all; the gold pencil-cases, lead and all.

The Complete Father Brown 2003