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  • If you love tea, and particularly rooibos and vanilla, it will be wisest to pre-order your own tea-box, as quantities are extremely limited.

    News from the Nose: Ayala Moriel's Winter 2007 Newsletter Ayala Sender 2007

  • If you love tea, and particularly rooibos and vanilla, it will be wisest to pre-order your own tea-box, as quantities are extremely limited.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • [While talking, she opens all the letters on the table, rummages the portfolio and writing-box, looks at cards on mantelpiece, work in work-basket, tries tea-box, and shows the greatest activity and curiosity.]

    The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

  • There are strange dried roots, strange dried fish, strange dried land and marine plants, ducks and chickens, split, pressed thin and smoked; dried shellfish; cakes newly made, yellow, glutinous and fatty, stamped with tea-box characters; and great earthen jars filled with rottenness.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • On top of the chest stood a tin box, decorated with figures of queer people with queer flat parasols; a Chinese tea-box, in a word.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • On top of the chest stood a tin box, decorated with figures of queer people with queer flat parasols; a Chinese tea-box, in a word.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • On top of the chest stood a tin box, decorated with figures of queer people with queer flat parasols; a Chinese tea-box, in a word.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • He invariably declined them, and said he would take one of the others from the tea-box

    Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • He invariably declined them, and said he would take one of the others from the tea-box

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • He invariably declined them, and said he would take one of the others from the tea-box -- my very best, kept in tea for sake of dryness.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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