She unfolded them to reveal a small wad of cash.
Each one was mostly empty except for a small dark wad of material near one end.
Brown bent down and, with one hand, crumpled the plane into a small wad.
He looked at her for a long space and then, leaning, scooped up a small wad of red clay from the ground.
At the same time Poirot felt a small wad of paper pressed into his hand with the ticket.
He rolled these into small wads, then shook them up in his cupped hands.
She threw a small wad of paper out of the window.
He watched until the letter was reduced to a small wad of gray ash.
From his pocket he took a small wad of paper.
To break the bones of their victims so they would fold up into a smaller wad.