biscuit-tin

But it was rough even at the dawn of the new century when the Strokes emerged from the Lower East Side read: Dwight School with their post-punk guitars and biscuit-tin drums to capture a city's insouciant attitude and inveigle the rest of the country with it.

Disco Donors, Punk Pioneers Andy Beta 2011

Our implements showed some originality and diversity: a little spade, a biscuit-tin, and a cooker.

The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

So what, if the slap-bass makes you giggle, the synths sound cheesy, and the drums sound like wasps fighting in a biscuit-tin?

Archive 2008-02-01 Eeleen Lee 2008

So what, if the slap-bass makes you giggle, the synths sound cheesy, and the drums sound like wasps fighting in a biscuit-tin?

Culture Vulture Speaks! #2: 80's Music Redemption Eeleen Lee 2008

Our implements showed some originality and diversity: a little spade, a biscuit-tin, and a cooker.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Huntley & Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her.

Heart of Darkness 1960

It was a sensation, of course, of desire; but desire for what? not, certainly, for a biscuit-tin filled with moss, nor even (though that came into it) for my own past.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

I found the sugar in one of those blue packets in an old biscuit-tin; one end of the packet seemed to have been unwrapped.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

Made the same as "Soft Gingerbread," omitting the eggs and mixing hard enough to roll out like biscuit; rolled nearly half an inch thick and cut out like small biscuits, or it can be baked in a sheet or on a biscuit-tin; cut slits a quarter of an inch deep across the top of the tin from side to side.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

His servant drops a field boot on to my stomach, trips over an empty biscuit-tin and is heard grooming a boot without.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 Various