compass-box

The decks were cleaned, prayers said, breakfast eaten, and the rough plan of Oxenham's hiding-place nailed down on the compass-box, where all could see it.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

It only remained for me to return all round, after five minutes of petrified stupidity, the hand-grasps that had been offered from every quarter of the compass-box.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

Stahl stood back from the compass-box whereon they leaned, and putting a hand upon his companion's shoulder, looked a moment into his eyes.

The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

A faint gleam came through the glass below the compass-box.

The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

But Billy Simpson, in mind perhaps of the hundred ounces in the compass-box, insisted that he'd just as soon as not.

Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

His gaze shivered and fixed itself on the Master's, as in a compass-box you may see the needle tremble to magnetic north.

Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The moment that these two accurately coincide you pull toward you a small lever within easy reach of your hand, and the two arms glide in through the slit in the side of the compass-box, passing one on each side of the needle on the edge of the card, and your apparatus is then connected up ready for action.

The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

The compass-box and hanging-compass, invented by the English cleric,

The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876

Mr Felton meanwhile had lifted the cover of the compass-box, into which he now inserted the small magnet, so that it pulled the needle a quarter of the circle round, and made it appear that our course was due north.

Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Bramble took the glass off the top of the compass-box, lifted up the card, and then showed me the needle below, which pointed to the north.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820