They might just mean a "pocketful" of sewing tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Go right out now and buy a pocketful of flag pins. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Hart: Whose Flag Is This, Anyway?] Reference
He had spent a pocketful of money, or had it stolen. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Huckabee seems to have found a pocketful of miracles. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2008] Reference
But in Connecticut, you need to have a pocketful of money. From Wordnik.com. [10 Questions for . . . Peter M. Christopher, Home Inspector] Reference
I know she has a pocketful of runny eggs, but isn't sharing. From Wordnik.com. [Drug Series # 19: Heroin] Reference
And, you never have to deal with a pocketful of loose change. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
I always had a pocketful of money for I got two and six a day. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
He was probably in the habit of carrying a pocketful of condoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride]
The reward for his performance here a pocketful of business cards. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009] Reference
"It was worth while going," and he felt of his pocketful of diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference
Ephesian bandit, and a pocketful of curious but incomplete seashells. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
And a panty to wear up a gum tree: trimmed with a pocketful of gum drops. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
We ` re talking no shaving, lucky cowboy boots, and a pocketful of charms. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008] Reference
To sell one's birthright for a mess of potage – or a pocketful of candies?. From Wordnik.com. [Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L Haley] Reference
He had a pocketful of cash, even though he had quit school and was unemployed. From Wordnik.com. [Makes Me Wanna Holler] Reference
He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his trade is. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Prince showed her the pocketful of sugar plums he had brought for her, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Fairy Book] Reference
My brothers and myself always take a pocketful to school to eat with our luncheon. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Do you have to have a pocketful of money and offer to bankroll part of it yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2003] Reference
And a pocketful of lawsuits from the ACLU and CAIR for your next Christmas present!. From Wordnik.com. [Leon T. Hadar: The Keystone Cops Meet the Parents; And Let's Not Invade Yemen] Reference
At nightfall I found myself (with a pocketful of the school oatmeal) lost on a moor. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Kleptomaniac, the people that steal all the time when they have a pocketful of money. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2006] Reference
I had eaten my pocketful of prunes and chocolate drops during the march the day before. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Chaffin)] Reference
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocketful of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. From Wordnik.com. ["Sing a Song of Sixpence"] Reference
So, it was off to America, with one hundred dollars, two suitcases and pocketful of nerve. From Wordnik.com. [when Irish eyes are cryin'] Reference
I sent D. to work today with a pocketful of change for lunch money, because it was all I had. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
In a short time he had drawn a pocketful of silver, and going out soon overtook Jud Carpenter. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
ALFORD: If I were carrying a pocketful, sure it can be packaged just neat powder in my pocket. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2009] Reference
It was Weldon and Pate Brown for it now, and both began to dream of a good pocketful of "sovs.". From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches] Reference
And he had no end of money, he was always chinking a pocketful, and talking of what he should buy. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
She opened a dainty leather purse, while the lawyer paid his debt from a pocketful of small change. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
SIEBERG: Gone are the good old days when a pocketful of dough actually meant paper bills and metal coins. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2005] Reference
I have parked around town, and you know if you go someplace for an hour you have to have a pocketful of quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Michael D. Brown on the issues] Reference
Prof. Smith: A man could take a pocketful of the various kinds of nuts and go around his fence corners and plant a few. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
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