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Pocketbook

noun

Your personal financial means.

A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money. Synonyms: billfold, notecase, wallet.

Pocket-sized paperback book. Synonyms: pocket book, pocket edition.

A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women). Synonyms: bag, handbag, purse.

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"Pocketbook" Quotes from Famous Books

... and some small money; but better than all, I have a gold piece that I keep in the safest place in my pocketbook. I am not intending to spend it for I have enough without it, but my father said that one ought to have more money with him than he ...

— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang

... down-stream. The number of probabilities was infinite, and each more plausible than the others as it occurred to us. We inquired at every house we had passed on the way, we questioned every one we met. At length it began to seem improbable that any one would remember if he had picked up a pocketbook that morning. This is just the sort of thing that ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... Individuals, not countries, do business! Being human, these individuals are apt to follow the line of least resistance. Hence, the best-laid plans for imposing international industrial teamwork are likely to founder on those weaknesses of human nature that begin and end in the pocketbook. ...

— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

... afraid that I should not be discovered. The first thing I had to do was to try and get into my saddle; but, should I fail, dreadful might be my fate. My horse might perhaps make his way into camp, and by his appearance show that some accident had happened to me. I had a pocketbook and tore out a leaf and wrote—"Lying on the ground with both legs broken, to the eastward of the camp," and ...

— Adventures in the Far West • W.H.G. Kingston

... the soil is three feet deep—as I am told it is in the Illinois corn belt—all that is needed is to loosen up the soil to the depth mentioned, and add old manure. If the removal and bringing in of so much new soil is too harsh on the pocketbook we must proceed in a more economical way. If the soil is clayey in texture, mix with it sifted coal ashes or sand, and the coarser part of the ashes may be incorporated with the soil in the lower foot of bed. Remove the top one-foot layer, and set it aside; ...

— Making a Garden of Perennials • W. C. Egan

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