biscuit-box

So we all does, cos he can't punch straight on account of not gettin 'Fixed till after the biscuit-box machine chewed up and swallowed the first two fingers on' is right 'and.

A Scruffian Christmas Hal Duncan 2009

But sure enough, Barrington passed over to me a little lead biscuit-box, and Ellenborough, seating himself beside me, indicated that I should open it.

Fiancée 2010

To get back something of her, he fetched from the cupboard at the bedside an old Rheims biscuit-box, in which he usually kept his letters from women, and from it came an odour of dry dust and withered roses.

Madame Bovary 2003

The house-captain lit the candle which stood in a biscuit-box shade on the press by his bed.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

But sure enough, Barrington passed over to me a little lead biscuit-box, and Ellenborough, seating himself beside me, indicated that I should open it.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

But sure enough, Barrington passed over to me a little lead biscuit-box, and Ellenborough, seating himself beside me, indicated that I should open it.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

One day she went into the garden with her spade and an old tin biscuit-box.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

Wonderful and varied were the uses to which he could put an empty paraffin-tin or biscuit-box, and excellent were the stews he could produce out of a mess-tin.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

The mealworms which Zöe mainly lived upon were kept in a tin biscuit-box, which she knew well by sight, and one day, being too busy to spare time to feed her with them, I opened her cage-door and put the box down a little way from the cage on the floor, and placed a small log of wood for her to descend by.

Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

Miss Parton obligingly typed the name and added another blank ticket to the collection in the biscuit-box.

Murder Must Advertise Sayers, Dorothy L. 1933