cigar-boxes

We all know in what an affecting farewell he took leave of the associates of his vie de garcon: the speeches made (in both languages), the presents distributed, the tears and hysterics of some of the guests assembled; the cigar-boxes given over to this friend, the ecrin of diamonds to that, et caetera, et caetera, et caetera.

The Newcomes 2006

He found Tana seated at the kitchen table before a miscellaneous assortment of odds and ends — cigar-boxes, knives, pencils, the tops of cans, and some scraps of paper covered with elaborate figures and diagrams.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

The Custom-House marker imprinted it, with a stencil and black paint, on pepper-bags, and baskets of anatto, and cigar-boxes, and bales of all kinds of dutiable merchandise, in testimony that these commodities had paid the impost, and gone regularly through the office.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Gad, the life you could lead - estates, palaces, luxury by the bucket, gold cigar-boxes and silk drawers, squads of slaves and battalions of willing women, visions of Xanadu and Babylon and unlimited boozing and frolic ...

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

On either wall were long net-racks holding a medley of flags, charts, caps, cigar-boxes, banks of yam, and such like.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

Out of cigar-boxes came a great heap of bright tin-foil that went on the branches in a way that only men could invent.

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

Mother got three dog-collars, a set of shaving materials (won in a raffle), two writing cases, five fans, two pictures by a local artist, four paper-knives, two carved cigar-boxes, a set of tea things, and five worked table-covers.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 Various

In cigar-boxes, pasteboard boxes, and such makeshifts, the specimens soon become broken, covered with dust, and marred in other ways, and the collectors become discouraged; hence it is necessary to secure good boxes from dealers in entomological supplies.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

On this shelf are pipes of all sorts and sizes, forms, and nations -- the straight English, the short German, and the long Turkish; on that are cigar-boxes, snuff-boxes, and tobacco-boxes of various kinds and appearances.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Ridgwell untied the small parcel, a wooden box, about half the size of one of Father's cigar-boxes, and appeared to be made of the same kind of brown wood.

The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Raymond Paton