egg-box

He bent over, laid hold of an egg-box, and began to worry it out from under the lashing.

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

Then, gesturing with his flashlight, he asked me to open the egg-box hatch so he could look up in the rafters of the coop.

Tina Traster: Who Stole My Chicken? 2010

Then, gesturing with his flashlight, he asked me to open the egg-box hatch so he could look up in the rafters of the coop.

Tina Traster: Who Stole My Chicken? 2010

However, I preferred to see that matter done myself, and told her to send the little maid for the frying-pan and the egg-box.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Bullivant and the adjutant had borrowed a car to search for almost forgotten mess luxuries; and coming back had given a lift to a _curé_, who in the dark put his foot in the egg-box, smashing twenty of the eggs.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

There was also a note in pencil, on the bottom of an egg-box, for the nurses who rented two rooms, should either one of them chance to come in and be hungry, she was to eat "the pudding and the chicken stew, and get herself a good supper."

The Beloved Woman Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Very different was the room through the wall, though as like in shape as one egg-box is like another.

The Voyage Out 1915

Very different was the room through the wall, though as like in shape as one egg-box is like another.

The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911

He bent over, laid hold of an egg-box, and began to worry it out from under the lashing.

The One Thousand Dozen 1904

It was now a home, in the sense that here strange coloured folk stranded in London could buy indifferent coffee and could sleep in a cell a little bigger than an egg-box on payment of a sum which would sustain them in comfort in their own countries for a week.

The Black Edgar Wallace 1903