It was a warm day, and though there was a fire the windows were open, letting in the scent of the mauve and pink hyacinths in the little window-boxes.

This was a wooden box nailed to the wall on the right of the door.

It is a clock and musical-box combined, giving out a variety of twenty-seven tunes.

It is carpeted with cheap date-leaf mats and a faded polychrome "dhurri"; dirty white cushions are propped against the wall below the windows; a few square desk-like boxes lie in front of the cushions; and in a semi-recumbent attitude around the room are some 20 or 30 menBombay and Gujarat Mahomedans, men from Hindustan and one or two Daudi Bohras, the regular customers of the "Kasumba" saloon.

" Amanda, out of breath and scarlet of face, slipped quietly into the loose box and sat down in the straw.

This business of turning a tree into boards without the aid of a saw-mill is a thing many placer-miners have to learn; for, even if they are disposed to sleep on the floor, and to do without shelves, they can't do sluicing without sluice-boxes, and they can't make those long, narrow boxes without boards.

Instead of the original tiny boxes of gifts we have frequently real nursery bricks of a larger and more varied character, and many other nursery toys.

It was shaped like a flat box, the size of an octavo volume.

We were in a precious awkward box, and I don't know how we should have got out of it if it hadn't been for you.

At the landing-place a number of carromatas were waiting for us,brightly painted, shallow, two-wheeled boxes, provided with an awning, and harnessed to a couple of horses, in which strangers with money to spend are quickly driven anywhere they may desire.

His face was painted and patched, his whole person strongly perfumed, and he had continually in his hand a gold snuff-box set with diamonds.

This occasioned some excitement among the slaves, but as the white people paid but little attention to it, it soon passed off, and the sorrowful slaves put the old man's remains in a rough box, and conveyed them to their last resting-place.

He had opened his oblong box, in order to feast his eyes on the pictorial treasure within.

In the box opposite to him, Norgate and Hebblethwaite were seated side by side.

Shortly, he mounted the middle sized box and looked up toward the banana, but the box was not directly under the bait, and in any event, it would have been impossible for him to reach it.

I took a pretty box for him [i.e., in June, 1665] in Giles-Chalfont

"WELL, HE OUGHTER, FOR HIS MOUTH IS LIKE THE SLIT OF A POST-OFFICE BOX."]

At last, turning to his brother, and pointing to the coffin, he said: "JOHN, don't you call that rather a neat looking box for four dollars?"

A stout tin box was overturned, its fastenings were all wrenched apart.

29): the barrel E, E, containing the tubes, the fire box B, and the smoke box F; of which the barrel smoke box, and external fire box are always of iron, but the internal fire box is generally made of copper, though sometimes also it is made of iron.

" Here is one on a truly unfortunate member of the human race: "Here lies CORNELIUS COX, who, on account of a series of unhappy occurrences, the principal of which were a greatly increased rent and consumption of the lungs, Got himself into a tight box.

It was a custom among the Romans to consecrate the first growth of their beard to some god; thus Nero at the Gynick games, which he exhibited in the Septa, cut off the first growth of his beard, which he placed in a golden box, adorned with pearls, and then consecrated it in the Capitol to Jupiter.

We arranged them in a handsome box lined with velvet and divided into compartments, and I made a catalogue of them, copied from my ancient parchmentswhich would have ruined me had I inadvertently allowed them to be seen.

"WELL, HE OUGHTER, FOR HIS MOUTH IS LIKE THE SLIT OF A POST-OFFICE BOX."]

(3) The larger box was turned on its side and the lighter box drawn up opposite it and stood on end.