country-box

Speaking of his villa, or country-box, the Man of Taste says --

De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880

Dolly beginning to blubber, the good man relenting patted him on the back, and said, "But as soon as you are well, I'll carry you with me to my country-box, and keep you out of harm's way till I find you a wife, who will comb your head for you;" at which cheering prospect Poole blubbered more dolefully than before.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Dolly beginning to blubber, the good man relenting patted him on the back, and said, "But as soon as you are well, I'll carry you with me to my country-box, and keep you out of harm's way till I find you a wife, who will comb your head for you;" at which cheering prospect Poole blubbered more dolefully than before.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"I did not call it a country-seat, Monsieur le Baron," replied Planchet, somewhat humiliated, "but a country-box."

The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

"I did not call it a country-seat, monsieur le baron," replied Planchet, somewhat humiliated, "but a country-box."

Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

What you do to-day, you will do to-morrow, if the bad air of the Pump Room has not given you a headache, or the waters a touch of vertigo; and you will continue to do it for a month or six weeks, when the lumbering vehicle with the leathern straps and crane-necked springs will carry you back again over the deplorable roads ( "so _sidelum_ and _jumblum_," one traveller calls them) to your town-house, or your country-box, or your city-shop or chambers, as the case may be.

De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880