work-box

We spilled out of our home-box, work-box, shopping and car boxes.

Boing Boing 2008

B'AH! so killing time, when i should be mixtaping like the dickens! non sequitur of a question: is it wrong to read other people's work-box mail when they are no longer an employee here? non sequitur of an observational complaint: if one is really going to insist on wearing those goddamn plaid linen-shorts ...

pojken Diary Entry pojken 2008

Then he reached back inside for her lacquered work-box.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

Emmy cleared these away and put them on the drawers, where she placed her work-box, her desk, her Bible, and prayer-book, under the pictures of the two Georges.

Vanity Fair 2006

Whenever Mrs. Rawdon wished to be particularly humble and virtuous, this little shirt used to come out of her work-box.

Vanity Fair 2006

By forcing the large blade of his knife under the flap of the bureau, he burst the weak lock; within was the rosewood work-box just as she had placed it in her hurry to keep it from him.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

Two constables entered the out-house, and seized him as he knelt before the fireplace, securing the work-box and all it contained at the same moment.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

After dinner sometimes, Mrs. Custance, for whom James Woodforde had a chivalrous devotion, would play the “Sticcardo Pastorale”, and make “very soft music indeed”; or would get out her work-box and show them how neatly contrived it was, unless indeed she were giving birth to another child upstairs.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

She had selected a little bouquet of one brilliant and two or three delicate flowers, relieved by a spray of dark verdure: she tied it with silk from her work-box, and placed it on Caroline's lap; and then she put her hands behind her, and stood bending slightly towards her guest, still regarding her, in the attitude and with something of the aspect of a grave but gallant little cavalier.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Lisbeth turned into the house at last and sat down in the workshop near Seth, who was busying himself there with fitting some bits of turned wood he had brought from the village into a small work-box, which he meant to give to Dinah before she went away.

Adam Bede 2004