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  • As quickly as I could, I raked out the white and gray ashes from the wood-box into the ash scuttle, then piled in some brown and sharp-scented pine shavings as tinder.

    The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

  • And, as relevant as the organizers try to make the parade with its programming, there's still a sensation of watching it on some '70s wood-box tube TV even though we've all pretty much gone to flat screens now.

    Phil West: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: How It's of This Time and Totally Not of This Time Phil West 2010

  • I put in two more lengths of hickory and closed the wood-box door.

    The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

  • And, as relevant as the organizers try to make the parade with its programming, there's still a sensation of watching it on some '70s wood-box tube TV even though we've all pretty much gone to flat screens now.

    Phil West: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: How It's of This Time and Totally Not of This Time Phil West 2010

  • Some of the best boutique brands, just in time for your last-minute Valentine: hand-dipped glace apricots, $14 at scharffenberger. com; heart-tile chocolate paves from Christopher Norman, $39 at eluxury. com; the wood-box assortment (with two cute "mice") is $28 at burdick chocolate. com; for the Legendary Lovers collection from Garrison Confections, $16, call 212-929-2545.

    Must Have: Cocoa Loco 2007

  • Mrs Gordimer and a changing regime of assistants let themselves in once in the afternoon, then in the evening, during which times the dishes were made clean, the cupboards and wood-box filled, and the oven stocked with an evening meal.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Mrs Gordimer and a changing regime of assistants let themselves in once in the afternoon, then in the evening, during which times the dishes were made clean, the cupboards and wood-box filled, and the oven stocked with an evening meal.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Gammelmoderen to wait upon Fru Juliet or the children, Alexander to perform some small service in the kitchen — lift some heavy object or kill a mouse in the wood-box.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • Suddenly she had thought of Banford in the wood-box for a coffin.

    The Fox 2003

  • And the coffin was the rough wood-box in which the bits of chopped wood were kept in the kitchen, by the fire.

    The Fox 2003

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