Boxes

Examples

• The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Poririer, a Frenchman, invented a machine for making match boxes of pasteboard. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Besides, most of the boxes and drawers there were mouldering, and did not lock. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He rose with the rest, and surveyed the occupants of the boxes grandly with his opera-glass. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But if we do not deal with them, thou must fire into the sentry boxes and at them if thou seest them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her glance swept the horse-shoe curve of boxes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Carriages and opera-boxes, thought he; fancy being seen in them by the side of such a mahogany charmer as that! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We got a gang of men, cut the current off for several junction-boxes, and fixed the leak. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The woman walked forward among the boxes and bales of the lower deck, and, sitting down, busied herself with chirruping to her baby. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Somerset, Lord Berwick and Lord Worcester, with your humble servant, in two private boxes adjoining each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But the word box is used for other things than boxes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I thought of the black-beetles, the old boxes, the worm-eaten bureau. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The equipment carries 16 complete rounds of ammunition with it, which are divided equally among four boxes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The sensitive plates are left to dry in dark rooms, and when the coating has become absolutely firm and dry, the plates are packed in boxes and sent forth for sale. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The stock is delivered to the charging floor in iron boxes loaded on narrow-gauge buggies, and is charged into the furnaces by electric charging machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The complete, wrapped packages of five slabs slide along a little runway into boxes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The former, at Selden's approach, paused in the careful selection of a cigar from one of the silver boxes invitingly set out near the door. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The gentleman was in a mortal hurry about the lady's luggage, and he gave me a handsome present for looking sharp and getting the boxes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Like the boxes, this coil was in series with the armature, and subject to plugging in and out at will by the motorman. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The boxes will come later. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• His men had stood up gallantly until the ammunition in their cartridge-boxes gave out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a leak in one of our junction-boxes, and on account of the cellars extending under the street, the top soil had become insulated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The average car carries 400 boxes of oranges or lemons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then I was being ushered into one of these boxes, and found myself saying something as I sat down, and people about me crying 'Silence! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The separation of the water is further assisted by suction boxes which extend across close beneath the upper run of the belt and are connected to suction pumps. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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