dice-box

Call it gambling if you will, but just the same it seems to me more satisfying to create something, make something, than just to roll dice out of a dice-box all day long.

Chapter XV 2010

Jack, you are never without a dice-box or a bottle-screw.

The Virginians 2006

We had an intimacy together, for he was a good sportsman as well as myself, and we came to have a pretty considerable friendship for one another; if he saw a dice-box it was impossible to prevent him from handling it; but he took to it as natural as a child does to sweetmeats.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

For there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Now, our friend the Colonel had a great aptitude for all games of chance: and exercising himself, as he continually did, with the cards, the dice-box, or the cue, it is natural to suppose that he attained a much greater skill in the use of these articles than men can possess who only occasionally handle them.

Vanity Fair 2006

Mr. Will would walk over with a dice-box and a rum-bottle to cousin

The Virginians 2006

The passage was behaving like a dice-box, its disposition was evidently to rattle him about and then throw him out again.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

“Of course I have thought of public life like every man of my station — every man, that is, who cares for something beyond a dice-box or a stable,” replies George.

The Virginians 2006

The eyes of all present turned towards the doctor, who did not rise to receive the young nobleman, but merely bowed his head without laying down the dice-box, for he was playing a game of backgammon with Monsieur Bongrand.

Ursula 2006

And so they set to work, and the dice-box was rattled and the cards shuffled and dealt.

The Virginians 2006