"Pocket book" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... edge of the bed and began to tuck the money away in his pocket book. Was he really ...
— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.
... dignity, in which he excelled all his neighbours, and to this I was constrained to listen with assumed composure and attention for a considerable time. To convince me of his veracity, he produced a pocket book, containing a great number of recommendatory notes, or 'characters,' as a domestic would call them, written in the English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, and which had been given him by the various European traders, who had visited ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... Quite so, Andy. He would have been a good match for her. (He makes notes in a pocket book.) Nothing like notes, Andy. Now, so much for the love part of the ...
— The Drone - A Play in Three Acts • Rutherford Mayne
... was very hot, but further away from the house the sea breeze was blowing through the trees. He was still smoking the cigarette he had lighted upstairs, and he sat down on a bench in the shade, took out a pocket book and began to make notes. From time to time he looked along the path in the direction of the hotel, which was hidden from view by the shrubbery. Then the clock struck twelve and a few minutes later the church bells began to ring, as they do ...
— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford
... weather or cold, he may still be seen every day at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, leisurely strolling from building to building, picking his steps quietly through the bustling crowds of busy workmen, never speaking a word, not even to Marston his faithful shadow, often pencilling something in his pocket book, stopping occasionally to look apparently nowhere, but never, you may be sure, allowing a single detail in the restless panorama around him to escape the piercing shaft of ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne
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