book-box

He had a savings-box -- he used to call it his 'book-box' -- and he would always drop in every spare penny he had for books till he'd got a few shillings, and then he would buy what he called 'classics.'

The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

In a small back closet, window opposite to door, and both always open, I had soon got a table wedged to fixity, had set on end my book-box, changing it to a book-press, and adjusted myself to work, quite tolerably all along, though feeling as if tied up in a rack.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Small blame to him if life seemed to have lost its landmarks, and things round him to be "all nohow," as he sat down in some bare hall upon a schoolfellow's book-box (wondering whether he should ever see his own), to while away with a story-book the listless interval before bed-time, under the niggard light of a smoking lamp, or a candle flickering in the draught.

Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth John Huntley Skrine 1885

With that the book-box came down a great bump on the pavement, and presently both were in the hall, the one on the top of the other.

Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

It was a grown-up book, that I read once -- long ago, 'said Dolores, who had in her mother's time been allowed a pretty free range of' book-box. '

The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

And then, of course, in Steve’s backpack were the three items indispensable to all detectives—a notebook, flashlight, and magnifying glass—plus his secret book-box, which Steve had made himself by hollowing out the middle of an old copy of the Guinness Book of World Records.

The Ghostwriter Secret Mac Barnett 2010

What she had done in the breakfast room, she did or helped to do in the other parts of the house; she unpacked boxes and put away clothes and linen, in which Hugh was her excellent helper; she arranged her uncle's dressing-table with a scrupulosity that left nothing uncared-for; and the last thing before tea she and Hugh dived into the book-box to get out some favourite volumes to lay upon the table in the evening, that the room might not look to her uncle quite so dismally bare.

Queechy 1854

What she had done in the breakfast room she did or helped to do in the other parts of the house; she unpacked boxes and put away clothes and linen, in which Hugh was her excellent helper; she arranged her uncle's dressing-table with a scrupulosity that left nothing uncared-for; -- and the last thing before tea she and Hugh dived into the book-box to get out some favourite volumes to lay upon the table in the evening, that the room might not look to her uncle quite so dismally bare.

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

What she had done in the breakfast-room, she did or helped to do in the other parts of the house; she unpacked boxes and put away clothes and linen, in which Hugh was her excellent helper; she arranged her uncle's dressing-table with a scrupulosity that left nothing uncared-for; and the last thing before tea she and Hugh dived into the book-box to get out some favourite volumes to lay upon the table in the evening, that the room might not look to her uncle quite so dismally bare.

Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852