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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A seat in a theater-box, or on the box of a coach.

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  • “He assured himself that no detail was amiss in the harnessing and hitching, and reseated the party, insisting on Graham coming forward into the box-seat beside Paula.”

    CHAPTER XX

  • “In the stands Special Agent Rafferty is walking down the stairs to the box-seat area behind the home team dugout.”

    Simon & Schuster: Underworld

  • “Leyland then slapped high-fives with fans along the box-seat railings before taking part in the festivities in the middle of the field.”

    USATODAY.com - Baseball - Oakland vs. Detroit

  • “In front is a box-seat, with leather cushions and an apron.”

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

  • “I had secured the box-seat on the fastest of these, and my business in Fleet Street was to get into a cab with my portmanteau, so to make the best of my way to the Peacock at Islington, where I was to join this coach.”

    The Holly-Tree

  • “I remember we took the carriages from the Vladimirsky; they were very old, and painted blue, with round springs, and a wide box-seat, and bundles of hay inside; the brown, broken-winded horses that drew us along at a slow trot were each lame in a different leg.”

    The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories

  • “I see a landau before me, and on the box-seat by the driver is my young friend Charley, who waves his hat to me and calls out,”

    The Virginians

  • “Master Charley looks down from his box-seat upon his sister and me engaged in beatific contemplation, and Hetty listening too, to the music.”

    The Virginians

  • “The horses began to walk up the hill, and Ivan got off the box-seat and went behind the back of the sledge as though he had dropped something.”

    A Desperate Character

  • “Then he stopped the ponies, put the cap on his dead master, and, getting on the box-seat again, drove him to the town, straight to the courts of justice.”

    A Desperate Character

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