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Definition of Purses
1. purse [v] - See also: purse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purses
Literary usage of Purses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"The king, at a venture, said, a thousand purses. Ismael acquainted the Porte with
this request; and the sultan readily acceded to it. ..."
2. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Disenssions of the Right and the by Thomas Embley Osmun (1909)
"We could also properly say, The purses in the aggregate, amount to, $32000. Ago.
Sometimes misused for previously. Ago can not be used with a past tense. ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1893)
"Dr. Goldsmith, in his Vicar of Wakefield, among the omens of his hero's daughters,
tells us, " purses bounded from the fire." In the north of England, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"When those free from debt or usurious demands went in thousands to the railway
works and returned with heavy purses, they gave feasts, and bought land with ..."
5. My Own Philosophy: And Other Poems and Dramas by Werner Eggerth (1909)
"purses AND PATRIOTISM purses and patriotism Are much alike indeed, Although no
catechism ... When empty, the purses are carried Open around in the hand, ..."
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