green bag

How to use green bag in a sentence

• My mother, Madam, had been delivered sooner than the green bag infallibly——at least by twenty knots.

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne

• Documents full of abominable details were deposited in a “green bag,” which called to mind the words in Job xiv.

  Recollections of a Long Life | John Stoughton

• The luggage included a basket of Bordeaux, a surgeon's case, a chest of medicine, and a violin in a green bag.

  A Dream of Empire | William Henry Venable

• Now he had an instinctive horror of a green bag, as he had once the honour of occupying a small corner of one.

  A Comprehensive History of Norwich | A. D. Bayne

• He wore glasses, long hair, carried an umbrella and a green bag; in fact, one might have met him in a vegetarian restaurant.

  Discourses of Keidansky | Bernard G. Richards