chests

• Some were in the hold immediately after the hatches were broken open, fixing the ropes to the tea-chests, others were breaking open the chests, and others stood ready with hatchets to cut off the bindings of the chests and cast them overboard. —  Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
• The chests were then opened, the tea emptied over the side, and the chests thrown overboard Perfect regularity prevailed during the whole transaction Although there were many people on the wharf, entire silence prevailed,--no clamor, no talking. —  Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
• (You say), but given it were mine to fill My chests, the case so put were yours, we'll say (This counter, here, your post, as mine to-day), And you've an eye to luxuries, what harm In smoothing down your palate with the charm Yourself concocted? —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• The patriotic citizen who had asked significantly if tea could be made with salt water was satisfactorily answered by the Mohawks when they cast overboard the last of their three hundred and forty-two chests, and prepared to disappear as rapidly and as mysteriously as they had come. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
• The chests are about the only things in condition, and they've lost their hinges and I've got to have the lovely brasses copied Stepping into the smartly cushioned car, Mr. Badgely sat himself down. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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