Sentence examples for small valise from inspiring English sources

Buzzed in, the men rolled a small valise on wheels into the hushed inner refuge.

We feel set to shed our skin, to grab a small valise and shut the door on our frayed and faded winter life.

But I love the image of the moon as an elegant traveller with a "small valise of darkness" – not to mention scholarly pretensions, considering the bookcase, encouraging the books to confess.

When we first encounter Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois in the Sydney Theatre Company's thrilling production of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" (directed by Liv Ullmann, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), she is literally backed into a corner, sitting on her small valise at the shadowy edge of the stage.

A century ago, my grandfather, in possession of a draft notice from the Czarist government a certain death-sentence for a Jew in southwestern Russia packed his worldly possessions in a small valise and headed for the New World Boston to be precise.

Sporting a heavy coat and armed with a small valise containing a 16-millimeter print, he tramps through knee high snow drifts en route to his first stop.

And Tote Le Monde's striped woven plastic market bag ($44 at Anthropologie) can be folded into a rectangle held fast by its own leather handles; it's small enough to slip into a side pocket of even the smallest valise.

His ponderous yellow leather dressing case, with labels of continental watering places, was an item for comment by contrast with Darrow's battered little valise.

Toward the back of the line, Abed el-Frangy, 54, the heavyset manager of an investment bank in Gaza City, plodded slowly ahead with a small black valise.

The lady suddenly lugged valise and small boy to a telephone booth, piled them both inside, and shut the door.

Pierre Gilliard recalled his last sight of the children at Yekaterinburg: "The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.