key-basket

She glanced at her key-basket and moved uneasily in her chair.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Miss Abingdon put her key-basket upon the dressing-table and sat down in an armchair on the farther side of the room.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Bible on the counterpane and decided once more that young people were inexplicable, and she clung to her key-basket with a feeling of security, and, holding it carefully in her hand, went downstairs again.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Miss Abingdon still used a key-basket and hoped, please God, she would never be called upon to give up this womanly appendage, whatever the world might come to.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

At ten, I was trusted to carry the key-basket and to "give out" ingredients required for the day's cooking and serving.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

My grandmother's wedding night-gown, which I have, helps me to picture her as she moved about the modest homestead, directing and overseeing servants, key-basket on arm, keeping, as she did,

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

C. and down the steps; she is a pretty woman, bright, fresh, and cheery; she carries a small key-basket containing keys, and an account book and pencil, which she places on R., table as she turns from Gilbert; she throws the shawl over the mounting stone as

The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894

Mildred, as she sat on the sofa with her key-basket in her hand; 'but

Celibates 1892

She crossed the room to where her hostess's key-basket and other belongings stood upon a table near the window.

The Grey Lady Henry Seton Merriman 1882

But here I caught hold, not of the key-basket, but of the hard, work-worn hand that held it.

Esther : a book for girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874