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Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you,...
Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
In spite of the falling rain, which had somewhat lessened, he took a small valise in his hand, and, leaving the remainder of his luggage at the inn, ascended the hills towards East Endelstow.
1605, Pierre Le Loyer, Discours et histoires des spectres, visions et apparitions des esprits, anges, démons et ames, se monstrans visibles aux hommes, Nicolas Buon, page 368:
Elle luy dit qu’il tuë le premier qui viendra à sa rencontre, & luy couppe les oreilles, & les mette en sa valise, & puis qu’au milieu de l’estour il face la croix auecques son espee entre les deux pieds de deuant de son cheual, & se iette en fuite.
She told him that he kills the first person who comes to meet him, cuts off his ears, and puts them in his suitcase, and then in the middle of combat, he faces the cross with his sword between the two front feet of his horse, and hurls himself into flight.
1938, Francis Carco, L’Homme de minuit, Paris: Éditions Albin Michel:
Le boiteux empoigna sa valise par terre, la plaça sur une chaise et souleva le couvercle.
The cripple grasped his suitcase on the ground, placed it on a chair, and opened the buckle.
1965, Georges Perec, Les Choses, Julliard:
Ils s’enthousiasmaient pour une valise – ces valises minuscules, extraordinairement plates, en cuir noir légèrement grenu, que l’on voit en vitrine dans les magasins de la Madeleine, et qui semblent concentrer en elles tous les plaisirs supposés des voyages éclair, à New York ou à Londres.
They were enthusiastic for a suitcase—those minuscule and extraordinarily flat suitcases made of black, lightly granular leather, that you could see in the shop windows of the Madeleine, and which seemed to concentrate in themselves all the supposed pleasures of lighting-fast trips to New York or London.
^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
