Sentence examples for pocketbook i from inspiring English sources

"I don't do it for my pocketbook, I do it for my head," said Mr. Karfiol, a widower.

As a tax scholar who writes about issues that can hit rich people in the pocketbook, I am sometimes reminded why the institution of tenure, for all its flaws, is worth keeping around.

What did you find out?" The person on the other end fed her information, and as she struggled to open her pocketbook I held out my pad and pen.

When I would steal a copper cent out of my mother's pocketbook I would feel a dreadful, suffocating sinking in my bad heart, and for days and nights afterwards — long after I had eaten the chocolate mousse — the copper cent would haunt me and haunt me, and oh, how I wished it back in that pocketbook with the clasp shut tight and the bureau drawer locked!

So, being of cobwebbed mind and nearly empty pocketbook, I showed up for the collection agency's open house, got hired on the spot, and settled into a ten-month run that left me convinced that nearly every finance company in the world is out to fuck you right the fuck over.

"Because I'm black and [if] I'm walking down the street and somebody says, 'hey, I think you might snatch my pocketbook,' I'd be a little pissed".

"When people vote with their pocketbooks, I find they're supporting issue-driven projects and subjects," he said.

The second is the inscription Wilfred Owen's mother found in her dead son's pocketbook: "When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable".

"I remember being taken aback because she fished this big, cumbersome thing out of her pocketbook, and I thought, what is that?" Mr. Koda, the curator of the Museum's Fashion Institute, said that not only was it an unexpected form of communication, but she was already in her 80's.

Enclosed you will find your pocketbook which I found on front and Whitehall St.

"Young filmmakers want to make films that come from the heart rather than the pocketbook, and I think, in that sense, our community is a little bit different than the ones out in Hollywood or New York," he said.