She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his
vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm.
"'But mind you,' he said, when he had jabbed a bunch of copy paper into my hand and given me a pencil from his
vest pocket, 'mind you, I won't stand for the high and flighty philosophical, and I perceive you have a tendency that way.
if you knew, my dear friend, how indifferent all the missions of the world will henceforth become to me!" And he laid his hand upon the parchment in his
vest pocket.
He took it off and stuffed it into his
vest pocket, after the manner of man.
He fished out of his
vest pocket a couple of little things which I carried to the light and ascertained to be pistols.
The little man looked at his watch--a big silver one that he carried in his
vest pocket.
He felt absently in his
vest pocket for a match, lighted it, and discovered that he had no cigarette.
Next morning Fred showed me one of the crumpled flowers in his
vest pocket, and looked very sentimental.
Drawing a harmonica from his
vest pocket, he put it to his lips and began to play "Marching through Georgia."
The Judge had taken his watch from his
vest pocket and now held it in his hand, measuring the interval which was to ensue before the appearance of Clifford.
So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your
vest pocket, if you had one.
Also, he had invented a combination keyless door-lock that travelers may carry in their
vest pockets and apply immediately and successfully under all circumstances.
vest pocket - a small pocket in a man's vest