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
There is such a thing as a heavy purse and a poor and empty heart.
From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.
Wise Cora had seen the propriety of giving to this unwelcome sister-in-law with the heavy purse, apartments of the best in the newly fitted-up portion of the mansion.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.
A splendid gun, pistols, and a sword, with the hilt studded with gems, completed his outfit; while Stanislas had been presented with a heavy purse of money.
From A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
