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• I pulled it out and found that the lid of the box was all of one piece with the rest, like a sardine tin. —  The Five Jars
• Yes, the box was there, but the cupboard door, which I knew I had locked, was unfastened, and when I had to turn the key it became plain that the lock was hampered and useless. —  The Five Jars
• In the box is a gutter, extending the whole length of the bottom, covered with muslin and connected to a steam pipe; there is also a coil similarly connected. —  Photographic Reproduction Processes
• Slabs of bacon still hung from the roof logs beside the row of tin coffee-pots; the sawdust-filled box was still the object of intermittent bombardment by the tobacco-chewers, the uncertainty of whose aim was mutely attested by the generous circumference of brown-stained floor of which the box was the center Grouped about the stove, upon counter, barrel-head, and up-ended goods box, were the same decaying remnants of the moldering town's vanishing population The thick, cloudy glass with its sticky edges still circulated for the common good, and above the heads of the unkempt men the air reeked gray with the fumes of rank tobacco Only the man who entered had changed. —  The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
• With the letter came a jeweler's box, and in the box was the butterfly pin. —  Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman

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