tea-chest

Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s.

Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze 2011

Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s.

Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze 2011

This was of immense help to me when the Flashman Papers, which were still unpublished at Sir Harry's death in 1915, turned up as a collection of packets in a tea-chest at a Midlands sale-room in 1966, and were entrusted to me, as editor, by Flashman's executor, the late Mr Paget Morrison of South Africa.

Watershed 2010

The floors were sometimes swept — the carpets were sometimes shaken — the plates and dishes were cleaner — there was tea and sugar in the tea-chest, and a joint of meat at proper times was to be found in the larder.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Standing anyhow and all wrong, upon this open space, like something meteoric that has fallen down from the moon, is an odd, lop-sided, one-eyed kind of wooden building, that looks like a church, with a flag - staff as long as itself sticking out of a steeple something larger than a tea-chest.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

He stood on his toes and then bumped down on his heels, and looked blandly through his spectacles at a water-color by his sister — the subject was a bunch of violets — above the sideboard which was his pantry and tea-chest and cellar.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

At the very same instant likewise arrived William the footman with our own tea-chest.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

We found Mrs. Isemonger away, no one knew where, so we broke open the tea-chest, and got some breakfast, at the end of which she returned, and we had a very pleasant morning.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

We promised to be ready as soon as breakfast was over, but this was not so soon as was expected; for, in removing our goods the evening before, the tea-chest was unhappily lost.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

A tea-chest, in particular, greatly inconvenienced me, but Vassili declared that “things will soon right themselves,” and

Boyhood 2003