"Handbag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bubble, or a flight of bubbles. It is the very ecstasy of levity. As we listen to Lady Bracknell discussing the possibility of parting with her daughter to a man who had been "born, or at least bred, in a handbag," or as we watch Jack and Algernon wrangling over the propriety of eating muffins in an hour of gloom, we seem somehow to be caught up and to sail through an exhilarating mid-air of nonsense. Some people will contend that ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... woman. She had dressed herself thoroughly, down to the tying of a black veil over her face. As she appeared before him in the light of the parlour, Mr Verloc observed that she had even her little handbag hanging from her left wrist. . . . Flying off to her ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... with his coffee and gave them to the dog—and all the time feeling worthless and dejected. What was his trunk beside that wonder out there? There it stood, black canvas with the corners all rubbed and worn; a handbag, nothing more—ho, but wait! He would buy a trunk when he got to the towns, a splendid one ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... on to the platform, saw her escorted to a very handsome motor-car by an obsequious station-master, and watched the former disappear down the stretch of straight road which led to the hill. Then, with a stick in one hand, and the handbag which was his sole luggage in the other, he left the ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... once to a livery stable, where they arranged for a team and outfit. They then bought some cartridges for the gun, and a small handbag in ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead
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