"Side pocket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bulletin was off the press, the pad, with its written inscription, caught his eye and he shoved it into a side pocket. ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... promised in the note, though it must be galling to her pride," murmured the old detective. "I wonder if she really believes he'll keep his word—or can keep it? Well, I'll be there at the finish, and I think this will be the finish," he went on grimly, as he thrust his hand into his side pocket, where the "hooks" jingled ...
— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele
... was dripping down on him through the leaves of the trees. He found some matches beside his pipe in his side pocket, struck one, and looked at the sash, then took out his clasp knife to remove the pane under the latch. His hand trembled and shook and burst through the glass with a jerk. It cut his wrist, but he felt the wound no more than if it had been the glass instead of his arm that bled. ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... afloat—with the possible exception of a torpedo!—and that other craft had to turn to port in passing them. Joe had wrested that bit of knowledge from a volume entitled, "Motor Boats and Boating," which he carried in a side pocket every minute of the trip, and passed it on with evident pride. For the next few days he discovered other interesting items in that precious book and divulged them at intervals with what to Perry seemed a most offensive ...
— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour
... have dropped those cigars uncle Matt gave me. I put them carefully in my side pocket, and when I got down to the Red Lion, lo and behold, ...
— Dolly Reforming Herself - A Comedy in Four Acts • Henry Arthur Jones
... of the bed, shrugged her shoulders. The Adventurer was standing quite at his ease, his soft hat tucked under his right arm, his hand thrust into the side pocket of his coat. She could no longer see his ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... that!" warned the other sharply. "Hands up!" And Coquenil obeyed. "My pistol is on you in this side pocket. If you move, I'll shoot through ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... the doorway into the Saloon. In about a minute, he came back, and handed something to the Second Mate, that shone in the light from the lanterns. I saw that it was a revolver, and he held another in his other hand, and this I saw him put into his side pocket. ...
— The Ghost Pirates • William Hope Hodgson
... hoarse voice. Julian, then, was not quite an hour late, after all. The stir in the lobby seemed to be enormous, and very close to him; Mrs. Maldon had come forth from the parlour to greet Julian on his birthday.... Louis stuck the bank-notes into the side pocket of his coat. And as it were automatically his mood underwent a change, violent and complete. "I'll teach the old lady to drop notes all over the place," he said to himself. "I'll just teach her!" And he pictured his triumph as a wise male when, during ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett |
