brain-box

I used to keep my plots in my head entirely, thinking this made me intelligent to keep whole worlds and people in my old brain-box.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Losing the plot, and finding it again 2009

Arch said ye could see straight into his gullet and his brain-box both-but he lived.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Forgetting on the one hand that his right arm had been replaced by an iron hook, and on the other that a simple gutta-percha cap covered his brain-box, he had given himself a formidable blow.

Round the Moon 2003

Except in the brain-box, nature had dealt him a sad hand.

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

Except in the brain-box, nature had dealt him a sad hand.

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

In 1822 Arendt [223] focussed attention upon the remarkable structure of the skull of the Pike, with its cartilaginous brain-box studded all over with bony plaques, an arrangement which had already attracted the interest of Cuvier and

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

In this dilemma, and while ransacking my brain-box how to remedy the difficulty, a lady came in, and having passed me, Sambo -- grinning through a _chevaux-de-frise_ of snow-white ivories -- informed me that was "his Missus."

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Eve and Cain had the best of everything all the way through, for they acted in harmony with their feelings; whilst poor old feeble, vacillating Adam tried to use his worthless old brain-box, and the natural consequence ensued.

A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

The heavy ridges over the eyes, the upturned nostrils and triangular nose, place it near to the orang-outang, but it is superior to that form in its relatively greater brain-box, and in the fact that its heavy lower jaws do not protrude so greatly.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton