Example Sentences

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Ms. Shaw — purseless — grooved near the front of the stage.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2017

When frontier historians theorize about the uprooted, the lawless, the purseless, and the socially cut-off who emigrated 60 to the West, they are not talking about people like my grand�mother.

From SAT Tests

The race would be one-on-one, though not officially a match race; by antiquated racing rules, a match had to be a purseless race.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The very bang of the door as he went out, was a whole narrative of my purseless state.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

My case was precisely that of the purseless traveller, who, we are told, can sing before the robber, just as if want ever suggested melody, or that being poor was a reason for song.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James