cash-boxes

Marley totes a long chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel."

Debtor's Prism Margaret Atwood 2008

Scrooge is set free from his own heavy chain of cash-boxes at the end of the book, when, instead of sitting on his pile of money, he begins to spend it.

Debtor's Prism Margaret Atwood 2008

Publishers should no sooner read the opening pages of An Archer of Charles IX. than they should open their cash-boxes with “How much do you want?”

Two Poets 2007

Publishers should no sooner read the opening pages of An Archer of Charles IX. than they should open their cash-boxes with “How much do you want?”

Two Poets 2007

It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

Large numbers of articles of the above description, such as tea-trays, tea-canisters, cash-boxes, coal-boxes, and similar goods, are japanned at Birmingham, and it is to such that the preceding instructions apply.

Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown

It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

[Page 162] waitress doing her hair and the cashier unlocking the cash-boxes.

Bliss, and Other Stories 1920

He retired, and in half an hour returned with two clerks who bore books, himself a carpet-bag containing in cash-boxes £ 850,000, paper and gold, which he deposited on the Admiral's _bureau_, and, after again protesting before the clerks, went away.

The Lord of the Sea 1906

Hats and garments, cash-boxes and account-books, littered the hallways, and were piled in little heaps at the entrances to the elevators -- impedimenta that must inevitably be abandoned at the last if life itself were to be saved.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903