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'What have you in the side pocket of your coat?'Mathilde asked him, delighted at finding a topic of conversation.
'Actually,' she said to herself, 'my passion for that poor boy lasted, in his eyes, only from one o'clock in the morning, when I saw him arrive by his ladder, with all his pistols in the side pocket of his coat, until eight.
With the hammer of one of his pocket pistols, which he broke, Julien, animated for the moment by a superhuman force, wrenched open one of the iron links of the chain which bound the ladder; in a few minutes it was free, and he had placed it against Mathilde's window.
In his confusion he had left everything behind, including the key, which was in the pocket of his coat.
'It is a cassock,' he said to himself, and quietly seized the pocket pistols which he had placed under his pillow.
Mechanically Julien's hand went to his pocket pistols; but a second gendarme seized him by the arms.
He refused, and even tried to make the worthy peasant understand that he would do better to keep his money in his pocket.
She informed him that, on the day of the trial, M. de Valenod, having in his pocket his appointment as Prefect, had ventured to defy M. de Frilair and indulge himself in the pleasure of condemning Julien to death.
K. then stood still for a while, combed his hair with the help of a pocket mirror, picked up his hat from the next stair - the information-giver must have thrown it down there - and then he ran down the steps so fresh and in such long leaps that the contrast with his previous state nearly frightened him.
I've already got the contract in my pocket, almost.
Disappointed, K. took the letter and put it in his pocket.
So he drew the manufacturer's letter out from his pocket, held it out to the painter and said, "I learned about you from this gentleman, an acquaintance of yours, and it's on his advice that I've come here".
"On my lips?" asked K., pulling out a pocket mirror and examining himself.
He put a small dictionary in his pocket, took a guide to the city's tourist sites under his arm that he had compiled for strangers, and went through the deputy director's office into that of the director.
It was discourteous of the Italian not to come but it was also sensible of him, there would have been nothing to see, they would have had to content themselves with seeking out a few pictures with K.'s electric pocket torch and looking at them one small part at a time.
After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
He could not find his handkerchief, because it was in the pocket of the coat he had taken off, and he did not know where he had put the coat, and all the house had to leave off looking for his tools, and start looking for his coat; while he would dance round and hinder them.
A friend of mine, who lives at Kingston, went in there to buy a hat one day, and, in a thoughtless moment, put his hand in his pocket and paid for it then and there.
Mr. Wharton had taken a hand well filled with the images of Carolus III from his pocket, and now extended it towards Birch with three of the pieces between his finger and thumb.
The commandant read the reply, and put it in his pocket.
Happily for Henry Wharton, the searching eyes of his captors were examining, through a pocket glass, the column of infantry that still held its position on the bank of the stream, while the remnants of the Hessian yagers were seeking its friendly protection.
His head was bald and bare, but a well-powdered wig was to be seen, half-concealed, in the pocket of his breeches.
He took a piece of sticking plaster from his pocket, and applied it to the part.
Notwithstanding several of the small game had nestled in the pocket of Captain Lawton's man, and even the assistant of Dr. Sitgreaves had calculated the uncertainty of his remaining long in such good quarters, still there was more left unconsumed than the prudent Miss Peyton knew how to dispose of to advantage.
"Now, Jack," said Sitgreaves, nodding on his seat, "remember the air I taught you, and - stop, I have a copy of the words in my pocket."
While speaking, he took a Bible from his pocket, and offered it to the peddler.
"Stop," said the sentinel, catching her by her clothes; "are you sure the spy is not in your pocket?""Can't you hear the rascal snoring in my room, you dirty blackguard?" sputtered Betty, her whole frame shaking with rage.
I'm forced to take the woman's clothes, but in her pocket is a ricompinse.
"Examine your pocket," said one of the youngsters, who was enjoying the scene, careless of the consequences.
"Oh! 'tis nothing but the wit of some bumpkin, who thinks to frighten two of the Virginians by an artifice of this kind," said the trooper, placing the billet in his pocket.
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