Sentence examples for of a pocketbook from inspiring English sources

Polar bears were more of a pocketbook issue.

Here, then, is temptation, or fate, or truth, in the guise of a pocketbook.

As she stood up, I watched her face close like the shutting of a pocketbook.

At Prada, customers have been asking clerks to put their goods in unmarked bags, so as not to broadcast their purchase of a pocketbook, or a cashmere sweater, that costs a month's unemployment.

For his thesis project at the School of Visual Arts, which he later turned into a book, "Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things," published by Princeton Architectural Press, he invited artists and other obsessives to explore everyday ephemera — things like dust, the inside of a pocketbook, the bottoms of sneakers — in words and pictures.

Crossing lines at every price point, a semi-serious purple fur bag by Dolce & Gabbana ($830), a diagonal fur version by Barbara Rihl ($425) and a fringed kilt of a pocketbook by American Eagle ($34) are all equipped with this year's longer, fresher shoulder strap.

The first result was a color still-life photograph of a glove, a pocketbook and other accessories, published as the cover of Vogue on Oct. 1, 1943.

Other companion publications are also available including a "Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials" and a "Compilation of International Human Rights Instruments Concerning the Administration of Justice".

I spent a day with a friend, trudging through the woods with a bucket and a pocketbook of fungi without finding so much as a scrap of a worm-infested toadstool.

A companion publication "Human Rights and Prisons: a Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials" (ISBN 9211541581) is also available separately.

Stephanie Plum is a woman in her 30's with a pet hamster, a pocketbook full of makeup and mace, and a dangerous array of irrepressible appetites and impulses: for men, for clothes and cars, for doughnuts and Tastykakes, for getting into trouble, and even -- dare she admit it?