I reached deeper into my pocket for a thin wad of cash, embarrassed into speechlessness that I only had a measly $10 to tip him for his kindness.

On top was a thin wad of typed sheets of paper.

Relax while I talk to this kind officer," His hand went slowly to his pocket, the gun following his every move, the fingers dipped deep and came up with a thin wad of credits.

What passed for a beard on his chin more resembled the thin wad of loose hair Megan periodically cleaned out of her hairbrush.

Forbes tugged at the thin wad of paper protruding from the bag.

It was on the top of a thin wad of printout.

Stopping in the hallway, Marquette picked up the thin wad of tracing cloth.

She pulled out a thin wad of rupees, took two bills, and handed them over.

But Alan Keyes is still out there on the trail, still pushing forward, unconvinced that his is a lost cause, undeterred by a weak finish in New Hampshire and a thin wad of campaign cash and fresh polls that show him trailing Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain in South Carolina by 30 points.

The water within the Docks, a byway from the sewage-flow of the Thames, did not seem quite so foul to Mallory, until he saw, floating amid thin wads of slime, the bodies of dead men.