betel-box

On our way we passed one or two human skeletons, enclosed within a small bamboo fence, with the clothes, pillow, mat, and betel-box of the unfortunate individual, who had been either murdered or executed.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

He slipped out noiselessly as a cat, on the Umballa road, hailed a passing cart and jingled away, while Kim, tongue-tied, twiddled the brass betel-box in his hands.

Kim 2003

The others were very human; pressing small comforts upon the old man — a betel-box, a fine new iron pencase, a food-bag, and such-like — warning him against the dangers of the world without, and prophesying a happy end to the Search.

Kim 2003

It is woven of hemp, often heavily beaded, and contains the betel-box, the lime-tube, and a tight case of woven rattan for flint, steel, medicine, and other necessaries.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

He had a kabir, [102] from which darted forked lightning; and in the bag was a betel-box and a necklace of pure gold.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

Then she took out the betel-box and the necklace, and showed them to her brother, saying that she had found them in the Basolo's hut.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

[143] In a slightly different version, the tortoise tells the monkeys to bore into his ear with the tiuk, a brass wire that forms a part of the hinge of a betel-box.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

When the Tuglay started, the Bia gave him her own brass betel-box

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

The woman looked inside the bag and saw a fine gold betel-box, and when she lifted the lid, there in the box lay

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

Then he began to moan and weep for his betel-box and gold necklace.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner