Looking in at two o'clock one afternoon I saw at one of the tables a well-dressed lady of about thirty, with a Purseful of gold before her and a bundle of notes under her elbow.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
From the cupboard, too, he brought the big black bow and a sheath of arrows, also a Purseful of gold pieces from where they were kept, and with them the leathern bag which he had worn when I found him on the quay.
"The Virgin of the Sun"
H. R. Haggard
But as folks nowadays much rather give a Purseful of crowns to a crafty spy than a farthing to a poor needy man, she had to toil a whole day to get a dish of kidney-beans, and that at a time when they were very plentiful.
"Stories from Pentamerone"
Giambattista Basile