knowledge-box

The wind, which is very high up in our hills of Judea, though, I suppose, down in the Philistine flats of B. parish it is nothing to speak of, has produced the same effects on the contents of my knowledge-box that a quaigh of usquebaugh does upon those of most other bipeds.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Now I'm jest a-goin 'to let daylight into that little knowledge-box o' yourn, an 'fill it with good, wholesome idees, clean up to the brim, an' runnin 'over, -- good, honest,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Judge Pardee, a bibulous and oracular limb of the law, had been chosen inquisitor-general, with powers to call for all the news that was stowed away in that secretive "knowledge-box" on the shoulders of the Engineer.

A Wounded Name Charles King 1888

'You have some queer ideas, little one, in that pretty knowledge-box of yours.'

The Man Bram Stoker 1879

"Let's see what damage your knowledge-box has sustained."

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

I arn't sailed all round the world without picking up a few odds and ends to pack up in my knowledge-box.

Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870

I earnestly beg you to go on loving me a little, and, in the mean time, to excuse these very poor congratulations till I open new shelves in my small and confined knowledge-box, where I can stow away the good sense which I have every intention to acquire.

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864

Judea, though, I suppose, down in the Philistine flats of B. parish it is nothing to speak of, has produced the same effects on the contents of my knowledge-box that a quaigh of usquebaugh does upon those of most other bipeds.

Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Anon a Virginia schoolmaster, too intent on a pocket Virgil to heed the helmsman's warning, "Bridge! bridge!" was saluted by the said bridge on his knowledge-box.

Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Arrah, sure, it was all the same to Teddy -- only last Monday, he was more elevated than usual, for he had just reached the top of the steeple of one of the new churches with a three gallon can of beer upon his _knowledge-box_, and, perhaps a little too much of the _crature_ inside o! it.

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828