knife-box

A benevolent, elderly gentleman of the last century, with a powdered head, kept guard, in oil and varnish, over a most perplexing piece of furniture on a table; in appearance between a driving seat and an angular knife-box, but, when opened, a musical instrument of tinkling wires, exactly like

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

Sir Walpole Crawley is looking from its black corner at the bare boards and the oiled fire-irons, and the empty card-racks over the mantelpiece: the cellaret has lurked away behind the carpet: the chairs are turned up heads and tails along the walls: and in the dark corner opposite the statue, is an old-fashioned crabbed knife-box, locked and sitting on a dumb waiter.

Vanity Fair 2006

Then she went to the knife-box and got a knife; and then she took a yellow dish from the dresser, and sat down in her arm-chair, and began to pare the apples.

The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls Unknown

They could not make out how the handle was put on, so their aunt went to the knife-box and got out an old knife that had lost its handle.

Chambers's Elementary Science Readers Book I Various

Then she went to the cupboard and got a plate, and then to the knife-box and got a knife; then she took the fork from the mantelpiece, and drew her arm-chair close up to the table, and sat down in it, and cut off a piece of the dumpling, and put it on her plate.

The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls Unknown

On it stood a tea-caddy of mahogany, a knife-box, and several silver boxes.

Polly's Business Venture Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

I put 'em here in the knife-box, and they are gone!

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

He put them into a knife-box, he says, and this morning they are gone.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

"I have not been near your knife-box; I have not put my foot inside the door."

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

I placed 'em safe in the knife-box last night, and they're gone this morning.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850