trouser-pocket love

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  • The point about why I love the Palm Tungsten T as a book-reading device is that I can carry it with me everywhere because it fits in my trouser-pocket.

    In Defense of the Kindle Rogers 2009

  • Viktor drew us a little aside, and pulling out of his trouser-pocket a whole bundle of the red and blue notes then in use waved them in the air.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • ‘And I cannot see any need why he should wait,’ said Bennett, feeling in his trouser-pocket.

    Kim 2003

  • They could all see him standing, waving one hand in the air, the other was in his trouser-pocket.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • I caught a glint of gold as he put something back in his trouser-pocket.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Astonishment, followed instantly by avarice, and then by suspicion, calculation, and finally by decision as the hand clenched and hurried the money into a trouser-pocket.

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • Dr. Manschoff dismantled his steeple and placed a half of the roof in each trouser-pocket.

    This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

  • I caught a glint of gold as he put something back in his trouser-pocket.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • They could all see him standing, waving one hand in the air, the other was in his trouser-pocket.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • So, before coming down to House, he carefully filled his trouser-pocket with convenient-sized paving-stones.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 Various

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