Sentence examples for manuscript bag from inspiring English sources

Pam's children remember her arriving home every night with the "manuscript bag", so that she could keep up with submissions and editing after they had gone to bed.

With its time-and-expression worn lines and far-reaching eyes, her face gives the impression of a lifetime of staring out across the African veld - which in a sense is exactly what she has been doing ever since leaving Johannesburg in 1950, with her first manuscript in her bag.

Once I grasped this latest horror, I shoved manuscripts into a bag and told the manager I'd come right away.

After whipping off the plain brown jiffy bag containing the manuscript, he devoured it.

Also in the grave is a leather bag with a manuscript copy of the novel that has made his name in the intervening period.

In her bag was the manuscript of a first novel that was to make her famous and (by the standards of writers) rich, and though some of that future could have been predicted (the manuscript had caused a stir among publishers), no one could have foreseen the Booker prize and editions in 40 languages.

Dickey pulled a twenty-page manuscript, dense with type, from his bag.

He took a new grip of the traveling-bag where he had his manuscript, so that he should not be parted from it for a moment till it went into some publisher's keeping.

At one time, she scurried around New York carrying an unmarked brown paper bag in which lay the manuscript that her husband had described to his editor as a "time bomb".

After a concert at the festival, the manuscripts were presented in a plastic shopping bag to the conductor Christopher Hogwood.

Books and manuscripts are stashed in a cream leather Hogan Pan Am bag ($795), which can also house a smaller orange suede Prada purse.