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  •   After doffing my pince-nez, I pocketted them, for I did not wish to remove them completely from my person, lest I find that I wished to refer to the document again and be unable to utilize my eye's properly for its reading.

    The Astounding Adventures of Cyril Bright 2009

  • His canvas bag was slotted and pocketted to receive these mysteries, and Alleyn drew them out one after another to discover that they were all freshly cleaned and in wonderful order.

    Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955

  • Hanoverian rats, "she exclaimed indignantly," and those German women who pocketted everything they could lay their hands upon -- the 'Maypole' and the 'Elephant,' the one because she's so lean and the other because she's so fat -- they're rats too.

    Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

  • After you was locked up she pocketted that letter from your spark and off she went to his lodgings in the Temple.

    Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

  • All the valuables the old gentleman possessed were yielded and pocketted rapidly by the highwayman.

    Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

  • The poftillion pocketted his half - crown with great glee, flared at our hero with much aflonifhmenr, winked at Sturdy with the low-bred farcafm of his fraternity in his countenance, and de - parted, no doubt, with infinite fatif - fadion at fo clever a bye-job, and at fo hen-hearted a fimpleton who had given him fo little trouble for his pay.

    The ramble of Philo and his man Sturdy 1788

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