Citations:bag

English citations of bag

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1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
Then I saw that one came to Passion, and brought him a bag of treasure, and poured it down at his feet, the which he took up and rejoiced therein, and withal laughed Patience to scorn.

Judas the devil was also of this religion; he was religious for the bag, that he might be possessed of what was therein; but he was lost, cast away, and the very son of perdition.

But he making no haste to do it (for he was loath to lose his money), Mistrust ran up to him, and thrusting his hand into his pocket, pulled out thence a bag of silver.

1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
These I secured first, with some powder-horns and a small bag of shot, and two old rusty swords. I knew there were three barrels of powder in the ship, but knew not where our gunner had stowed them; but with much search I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had taken water.

In the middle of all my labours it happened that, rummaging my things, I found a little bag which, as I hinted before, had been filled with corn for the feeding of poultry—not for this voyage, but before, as I suppose, when the ship came from Lisbon.

The little remainder of corn that had been in the bag was all devoured by the rats, and I saw nothing in the bag but husks and dust; and being willing to have the bag for some other use (I think it was to put powder in, when I divided it for fear of the lightning, or some such use), I shook the husks of corn out of it on one side of my fortification, under the rock.

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
"Ha, ha!" laughed the same woman, when old Joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it, told out their several gains upon the ground. "This is the end of it, you see! He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!"

1990 — Reyes, Gremer Chan, Ang Tawo Nga Nanamin Sa Adlaw Sa Tinagong Dagat
“Usa ka buntag samtang namahaw, ako nakugang sa balita sa radyo sa ngilngig nga hitabo sa among panimalay. Gibunlot ko ang akong bag ug midali pagpauli.”

2015 — Cañete, Fred Nuñez, Ang mga Hangol (17 September), SuperBalita
“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” kalit nga mibhakhak si Bogart. “Milyonaryo na ako! Milyonaryo na…!” Gisakwat niya ang bag nga gisudlan sa kuwarta ug misayaw-sayaw.