In 1829 the fire-box was a kind of separate chamber tacked on to the back of the barrel of the boiler, and communicating with it by three tubes; one on each side united the water spaces, and one at the top the steam spaces.

Tin boxes or trunks are the best in which to carry one's spare things.

The box of goods in Verne's Mysterious Island is another case in point: there was no gusto and no glamour about that; it might have come from a shop.

The blue slates and the gray stone are sworn foes to the picturesque; and though I do not, for my own part, dislike the interior of an old-fashioned hewed and galleried church, with its little family settlements on all sides, the square box outside, with its bit of a spire like a handle to lift it by, is not an improvement to the landscape.

It seemed to him that the cigar-box was a good notionthe jewels themselves didn't take up so much room as you might think, and he laid some very ordinary things over the top of the packagea cake or two of soap, a sponge, and things like thatso that, supposing the cigar-box had been opened, its contents would have seemed very ordinary, you understand?"

This was doubtless due in a measure, if not wholly, to the fact that box 3 was the right box twice in each series of ten settings.

wee bit shooting box of a house, with a "Come awa ben ye'll be the better o' a bite o' venison pasty;" so in we went, and were introduced to his bonnie wife and sousy barnes, which latter, Jammie Hogg nursed as though he lov'd 'em frae the uttermost ends o' his sowl.

wee bit shooting box of a house, with a "Come awa ben ye'll be the better o' a bite o' venison pasty;" so in we went, and were introduced to his bonnie wife and sousy barnes, which latter, Jammie Hogg nursed as though he lov'd 'em frae the uttermost ends o' his sowl.

"My dear, do you know there is really such a thing as existence without a carriage and horses?""I assure you it is perfectly new to me to find that an opera-box is not a necessity.

But this last box is stronger'n pison.

A box at the Pergola, and a carriage for the banks of the Arno, are the indispensables, we are told, at Florence.

The fillagree box was a fort of night-mare to her.

The flats on the banks of the river are well grassed and openly timbered with ironbark, Moreton-Bay ash, bloodwood, and poplar gum; the soil varying from a soft brown loam into which our horses sank deeply, to a firm black or brown clay loam; the ranges were stony and thinly grassed; the timber box and ironbark.

wee bit shooting box of a house, with a "Come awa ben ye'll be the better o' a bite o' venison pasty;" so in we went, and were introduced to his bonnie wife and sousy barnes, which latter, Jammie Hogg nursed as though he lov'd 'em frae the uttermost ends o' his sowl.

These boxes were indeed the drawing-rooms in which very much of the social intercourse of the beau monde was carried on.

The man was a new kind of photographer, and his big box was a camera with which he purposed to take a series of pictures of the race.

Destiny had lavished all the glories of power and riches with liberal hand on the Romans; but, in truth, the Pandora's box was a gift of doubtful value.

To him the witness-box was a pillory, notwithstanding there was more mud attaching to the throwers than to the mere object of their attention.

But he does say Pandora's box is the story of the temptation and the fall.

We conducted this inquiry on metaphysical principles; and it was ascertained satisfactorily, that the roof of the coach, which some had affected to call the attics, and some the garrets, was really the drawing-room, and the box was the chief ottoman or sofa in that drawing-room; whilst it appeared that the inside, which had been traditionally regarded as the only room tenantable by gentlemen, was, in fact, the coal-cellar in disguise.

[Illustration: "The confessional box was emptyAlice was gone!"

They declared that pasteboard and wooden stock boxes were good enough seats for saleswomen; that they should not expect to sit down in business hours anyhow.

Besides the drawer, the rosewood box, and the worn Bible, there is a certain Black Cape.

Her box was a present from Makaraig, who had already got on good terms with her in order to propitiate Don Custodio.

And the money-box in which the poor man all over the country has the most faith is the Post-office.