fiddle-case

He dug in his pocket and tossed a handful of change into her fiddle-case.

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

He dug in his pocket and tossed a handful of change into her fiddle-case.

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

Only the stage-manager was left, and he was engaged in talking with the leader of the orchestra, who had just come in with a fiddle-case beneath his arm peeping out from his shabby paletot The farewell speech came, and it was only breathed.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

Rosinante, with _round_ reins and tassels, and a netting over its ears, and a head like a fiddle-case, and no more action than a camp-stool.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

Orpheuses, in which every third soldier shouldered a fiddle-case as a pendant to his musket, must have been curious to behold; suggesting the idea that the melodious warriors designed subduing their foes by the soothing strains of _jotas_ and _cachuchas_, rather than by the more cogent arguments of sharp steel and ball-cartridge.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

In the same fiddle-case a photograph of my predecessor, taken lately in Saigon, represented in front of a garden view, and in company of a female in strange draperies, an elderly, squat,

Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1922

In the same fiddle-case a photograph of my predecessor, taken lately in Saigon, represented in front of a garden view, and in company of a female in strange draperies, an elderly, squat, rugged man of stern aspect in a clumsy suit of black broadcloth, and with the hair brushed forward above the temples in a manner reminding one of a boar's tusks.

Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1903

No; well, then, why had she her fiddle-case with her?

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

She had her fiddle-case with her; and to offer to carry it for her seemed an easy way out of my difficulty; but she would not surrender it for a while.

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

In the same fiddle-case a photograph of my predecessor, taken lately in Saigon, represented in front of a garden view, and in company of a female in strange draperies, an elderly, squat, rugged man of stern aspect in a clumsy suit of black broadcloth, and with the hair brushed forward above the temples in a manner reminding one of a boar's tusks.

Falk Joseph Conrad 1890