call-box

Walked around Chinatown, got a little lost, but then the Canal St subway rose up in the distance like a giant red public call-box leading to the TARDIS.

"Keep the Canolis." Jes Battis 2008

He travels through time and space in what appears to be a 1950s-style blue British police call-box that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a Torchwood fan... littlemissattitude 2009

My inner Trivial Psychic* let out a squeal, so I waited and watched from my position on the third-floor balcony, immediately above the call-box, as a FedEx man walked towards our building's entrance.

tiny rewards 2007

Or that his phone call could have been made from a nearby call-box and he was even now listening to her mother's only too obviously trumped-up excuses.

The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993

'Where's the nearest call-box?' he asked Moffat, who still seemed interested in the tights.

Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992

So, limping badly, he followed Fatty down to the call-box.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

But probably he didn't want his mother to hear what he was saying, so he had gone out to the public call-box.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

‘When he came back from the call-box he’d stopped laughing.

Maigret at the Crossroads Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

He went out of the call-box - and stepped right in front of old Clear-Orf, who had been watching him through the glass.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

Maigret, still turning over these rather confused thoughts in his head, went into a bar, ordered a glass of beer and shut himself up in the call-box.

Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962