gun-case

Milly and I had read the cards which dangled from the trunk-handles and gun-case.

Uncle Silas 2003

To the left of the gun-case, an open door gave on the jail itself-three cells on each side of a short corridor, and a smell of strong lye soap drifting out.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Now they pull up at a lodge, and take on board a well-muffled-up sportsman, with his gun-case and carpet-bag, An early up-coach meets them, and the coachmen gather up their horses, and pass one another with the accustomed lift of the elbow, each team doing eleven miles an hour, with a mile to spare behind if necessary.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

"Whatever it is, Dad must have put it in the gun-case."

Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960

He opened a drawer of the gun-case and brought over to the fire half a dozen castings of the Buddha in various sizes.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

Crawley said something civil, and the groom touched his hat and asked what luggage he had, taking his gun-case from him as he spoke.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

He thought he might find some shooting and fishing in Wales, so had brought with him a gun-case and a setter; though his pretensions to sportsmanship proved to be rather of the cockney order.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

He was a great contrast to the labourer who passed us afterwards, also bound for the city -- an old and grizzled monkey-faced man, with his head tied round with a ragged red cloth gun-case.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Casey, hinting at a spin in the galley, somehow reminded one of a spaniel when he sees the gun-case opened.

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

The young man pulled his duffle-bag and gun-case down the steps; somebody waved a lantern; the train stirred, gained momentum, and was gone, having accomplished its immediate mission, which was to deposit a New York "dude," politician and would-be hunter, named Theodore Roosevelt, in the Bad Lands of

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923