Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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IT is now generally admitted that all educated men, at some time in their lives, write poetry. Many acquire the habit at an early age, and go about shedding blotted scraps of paper from their pockets with an infantile-Byronic air, to the delight of their mothers and to the...
"Every tax is so contributed as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the room occupants as little as possible over and above what it brings into the contribution-box of the room.
From the plethoric pockets of tourists rash,
The worst of the matter is, that the gas is turned off at the meters, so that it cannot be lit again during the night. A man's vexation when he finds himself in a black basement with only a match or two in his pockets is almost intolerable.