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By ten o'clock a nondescript youth arrived on foot, carrying a suit-case, which was turned over to me a few minutes later by the wharfinger.
CHAPTER I 2010
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A suit-case was brought up by one of the clerks from the waiting motor-car, and Daylight snapped it shut on the last package of bills.
Chapter IV 2010
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When the Herald capsized, Emil Jacques 'gun-laden metal suit-case slid away inexorably from between his feet.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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He steps aside to let our boy enter the apartment, the roped suit-case banging at his ankles, the other one smashing against Szmura's knee.
'Love And Obstacles' 2009
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She watched him marching from the train, solid, assured, carrying his heavy suit-case, and she was diffident β he was such a bulky person to handle.
Main Street 2004
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After that he packed his suit-case, went downstairs and, with great strength of mind, told the Brookers that this was not the kind of house he was accustomed to and that he was leaving immediately.
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βTHE Clarks have invited some folks to their house to meet us, tonight,β said Kennicott, as he unpacked his suit-case.
Main Street 2004
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He threw a newspaper at the censorious suit-case and, much relieved, went to bed to dream that he was a rabbit making enormously amusing jests, at which he laughed rollickingly in half-dream, till he realized that he was being awakened by the sound of long sobs from the room of Istra Nash.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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An early-wrinkled, young-old mother, moving as though her joints were dry, opens a suit-case in which are seen creased blouses, a pair of slippers worn through at the toes, a bottle of patent medicine, a tin cup, a paper-covered book about dreams which the news - butcher has coaxed her into buying.
Main Street 2004
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She saw not Cy Bogart but Fern Mullins, carrying a suit-case, hurrying up the street with her head low.
Main Street 2004
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