play-box

A large book, interleaved with blotting-paper, was disinterred from the play-box, and Bobbie sat down before it solemnly.

Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

The labour of packing my play-box and writing labels for my luggage had given me a momentary thrill, but for the rest I had moved among my insurgent comrades with a chilled heart.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

Dutch cheese, keep it carefully in your play-box or in your desk; but don't let your white mice get at it.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 Various

Don't know your own purse-strings, "spluttered the denouncer, growing incoherent with rising fury;" sit at home with your little play-box of a works down here, with fancy hutches for your rabbits of workmen, clubs, toys, kitchen ranges, hot and cold laid on.

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

I was conscious that the place had an unpleasant smell, and I was already driven to thinking of my pocket-money and my play-box -- agreeable thoughts which I had made up my mind in the train to reserve carefully for possible hours of unhappiness.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

But I was bound to go, for I wanted some wire to finish a cage I was making for my dormouse, who was running loose in my play-box and making everything in an awful mess.

Adventures in Many Lands Various

I thought strenuously of my brother's stories, of my play-box packed for a voyage, of the money in my pocket increased now by my eldest brother's unexpected generosity; and by dint of these violent mental exercises I had reduced my mind to a comfortable stupor by the time I reached the school gates.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

There was a little door in it, which opened on their ringing; and a clumsy, untidy man came out and fetched Philip's tin trunk and his play-box.

Of Human Bondage 1919

When his trunk and play-box were sent in, the approaching cleavage between our brother, who now belonged to the future, and ourselves, still claimed by the past, was accentuated indeed.

The Golden Age 1915

There was a little door in it, which opened on their ringing; and a clumsy, untidy man came out and fetched Philip's tin trunk and his play-box.

Of Human Bondage 1915