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  • It's great stuff -- Craig of Craigslist carries around old business cards in his shirt-pocket with notes to himself in tiny writing on the back of them.

    Boing Boing: January 2, 2005 - January 8, 2005 Archives 2005

  • He folded the bill and put it back in the envelope and put the envelope in his shirt-pocket.

    No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

  • Another tried to snoodle into the shirt-pocket of the black boy who accompanied me.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • And Brevoort drew a folded slip of paper from his shirt-pocket and handed it to Pete.

    The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • Another tried to snoodle into the shirt-pocket of the black boy who accompanied me.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • Try as i might, keeping it safely in my wallet or in my shirt-pocket or elsewhere, i can never find it when it is time to leave.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Nikon, for example, released the first camera with a built-in projector, a shirt-pocket model called the Coolpix 1000pj.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID POGUE 2010

  • Fujifilm and Sony released new shirt-pocket models whose redesigned sensors do exceptionally well in low light.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID POGUE 2010

  • I guess I'm a bit surprised ... here is a small 8MP digicam with Tv, Av, Manual, video, scene modes, flash exposure compensation and a decent OVF yet people will pay upwards of $300 (or more) for a basic shirt-pocket camera with auto and program only.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

  • With that, I submitted to his direction (though I yearned to grab the handkerchief from his shirt-pocket to blot my clammy hands).

    The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Lindsay P. Tanne 2010

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