"Personal effects" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... paper he had written, and had been witnessed by Timothy and another, was a short will, in which he left me his sole heir and executor. The whole of his property consisted of his house in St James's Street, the contents of his pocket-book entrusted to my care, and his personal effects, which, especially in bijouterie, were valuable. The house was worth about L4000, as he had told me. In his pocket-book were notes to the amount of L3500, and his other effects might be valued at L400. With all his debts and funeral expenses liquidated, and with my own money, ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... Crawford. And John Crawford doesn't talk much. Oh, you will learn fast enough all that we know about it. And now I suppose you'll be wanting to know where you fit into the machine. Bring any things with you—any personal effects?" ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... cried triumphantly. "I've packed all my personal effects clothes and so on—and everything else goes with the transaction. When I get on the train with this bag I'm a free man, and hurrah for Brooklyn! Lord, won't I be glad to get back to the city! I lived in Brooklyn once, and I ...
— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley
... traffic, it must be on consideration of his becoming a citizen and residing there for at least ten years, and of not trading with the property of another, under penalty of its confiscation, besides that of his other personal effects. Since, by this method, some goods would still be sent to Mexico, the money now taken by the Chinese would not be withdrawn from the country, and goods would be bought more cheaply and in exchange for products of the islands. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, V7, 1588-1591 • Emma Helen Blair
... to argue these things with you, sir. I have only this to say: if you give up the keys to me at once, your people can disperse unharmed to their homes, and Dame Royland and her son can depart with such personal effects as she desires, to go wherever she pleases, and an escort will be provided for ...
— The Young Castellan - A Tale of the English Civil War • George Manville Fenn
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