gladstone

Example Sentences

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It troubled us sorely to leave our good tents, beds, and equipment behind, yet all we could take was the blankets and one gladstone bag packed with clothes for us all.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot

I turned to Major Temple in amazement, and found that he was engaged in systematically searching Mr. Ashton's gladstone bag, which lay upon a chair near the bed.

From The Green God by Kummer, Frederic Arnold

He unpacked your gladstone bag, and you were uneasily aware that your well-worn pyjamas and modest toilet articles had made an unfavourable impression upon him.

From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Yet he was not at all at ease; his uneasy conscience invested the gladstone bag with a magnetic attraction for the public eye.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

He had its lid up in a twinkling, and in another had lifted out the well-remembered black gladstone bag.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph