"See, I've brought you some chocolates, my dear," and Mrs. Parsons fished in the jumbled depths of a handbag.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
First he changed all his clothes, and then opening again his rifled cabinet, he transferred the remaining papers to a small handbag.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
He was as thin as a skeleton, had red hair, and suffered from dyspepsia, remedies for which she carried about with her in her handbag, in the shape of tabloids and quack powders.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann