fig-box

The box of figs was a real fig-box with cinders and ashes in it damped to keep them from rattling about.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

Then his eye fell upon it -- the music roll that had slipped quietly to the floor when her eager hand had lifted itself to touch the butterfly, opening and closing his great wings in the fig-box.

Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

He took down an empty fig-box and transferred the treasure to its depths, dropping in after it one or two leaves and a bit of twig.

Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

It was a bit of the heart of Athens prisoned there; and many times, through the cold and snow and bitter sleet of that winter, Achilles took down the fig-box and peered into its depths at a silky bit of grey cradle swung from the side of the box by its delicate bands.

Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

He lifted the empty fig-box, from which the child had set free the butterfly that had hung imprisoned in its grey cocoon throughout the long winter, and placed it carefully on the shelf.

Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

The box of figs was a real fig-box with cinders and ashes in it damped to keep them from rattling about.

New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891

An old hunting-crop, some feathers from pheasants 'tails, part of a mole-trap, an old brazen bugle, much battered, a wooden fig-box full of rusty nails, several scraps of deal board and stumps of cedar pencil were heaped together in confusion.

Wood Magic A Fable Richard Jefferies 1867