heavy purse

Example Sentences

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Many of her customers are harried women for whom it is a great relief to sit down, doff a heavy purse and let a caring helper guide them through the experience of sampling aromas.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2010

I held up my newly heavy purse in one hand and shook it, knowing he could tell the ring of true Cealdish silver inside.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

It was the Duke who now first rallied, and throwing down a heavy purse of coin on the table before the astrologer, he called to his companion to follow him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

The taller and younger one of the two had just dropped a heavy purse into the hand of the other.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Tiny took the heavy purse, and looked at it, and from it to the people.

From My First Cruise and Other stories by Kingston, William Henry Giles