box-wood

This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of official style.

Les Miserables 2008

A straight broadsword, with a handle of box-wood and a sheath covered with snakeskin, was suspended from his waist.

The Talisman 2008

Then they came to a mighty big forest in which there was a mighty big tree; in the tree was a mighty big chapel in the chapel was a sexton made of beech-wood and a box-wood parson, who dealt out holy-water with cudgels.

Household Tales 2003

Maigret came in silently, bowed his head, dipped a sprig of box-wood in the holy water, and sprinkled it over the coffin.

Maigret Stonewalled Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly, made: round platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Greek ladies, made of box-wood, ivory, or metal, was used only for combing the hair.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

_ -- A block of box-wood is, in this instance, the substance out of which the pattern is formed: the design being sketched upon it, the workman cuts away with sharp tools every part except the lines to be represented in the impression.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various

Derby, who engrave the scales on white celluloid instead of on box-wood, thus greatly facilitating the readings.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

It seems it is the fashion for chess-men at present to be made of box-wood, and all nearly of the same colour.

A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

This willow-bark powder he mixes with a small quantity of real tobacco, if he has any; if not, he mixes it with the dried and crumbled leaf of a small and very bitter shrub that grows on the mountain-sides, and has a leaf looking somewhat like our box-wood.

Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various