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Sentences starting with box

Box 10s. [9]

Sentences ending with box

I will put you into my own box. [5]
Barbara preferred to walk beside hers, for clouds had darkened the sky; it had become oppressively sultry, and she felt as if she would stifle in the close, swaying box. [10]
They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities of my box. [5]
Young Harvey seldom took liberties; but he looked down from the box. [9]
Anatole went up to him and began speaking to him, looking at and indicating the Rostovs' box. [2]
I am ready to be searched for the box. [5]
It was at this instant that, glancing round the theatre in acknowledgment of the applause, her eyes rested mechanically on Gaston's box. [11]
When we reached the street I found I had left my arctics in the box. [5]
Ian rose as the nurse came forward quickly to relieve Jasmine of the tray and the box. [11]
I'll make out the ballot, and all you'll have to do is to drop it in the box. [9]

Short sentences using box

It must be that box! [5]
The box was soon unearthed. [5]
He has a box. [9]
Clemens arranged a box party. [5]

Sentences containing box two or more times

Donning his court uniform, M. de Beausset ordered a box he had brought for the Emperor to be carried before him and entered the first compartment of Napoleon's tent, where he began opening the box while conversing with Napoleon's aides-de-camp who surrounded him. [2]
He had been there about an hour this morning when a clerk brought him a small box, which, he said, had been found inside another box belonging to the Belward-Staplings, a distant branch of the family. [11]
Did the gentleman, Sir, who took the first floor of you yesterday afternoon, and who brought with him a box of property--a box of property--say anything more than is set down in this memorandum? [12]
The countess had long wished for such a box, but as she did not want to cry just then she glanced indifferently at the portrait and gave her attention chiefly to the box for cards. [2]
First, this box is at present in my hands, and though I am generally accustomed to respect the rights of property, I must assure you that, in the present instance, I shall not return the box until its contents have served my purpose. [10]
And we, too, had our "Fops' Alley," where our macaronies ogled the fair and passed from box to box. [9]
With the other gifts came a small tin box, about as big as a common round wooden match box. [6]
I had skipped from bed to bed and from box to box in a cold agony, and every time I touched anything that was furzy I fancied I felt the fangs. [5]
One day a feller--a stranger in the camp, he was--come acrost him with his box, and says: 'What might it be that you've got in the box? [5]
One day a feller --a stranger in the camp, he was--come acrost him with his box, and says: "'What might it be that you've got in the box? [5]

More example sentences with the word box in them

I told him you and I used the Autocrat as a courting book and marked it all through, and that you keep it in the sacred green box with the love letters, and it pleased him. [5]
There was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge. [5]
I was alone with the servant, a bright fire was blazing in the stove, and, obedient to a hasty impulse, I told him to throw the whole contents of the box into the fire. [10]
Where's the box with the new clothing and necessaries for them? [12]
The king tapped with his white-gloved hand on the ledge of the box when he was pleased with the singing.--To a morning concert and heard the real Paganini. [6]
An elegant carriage, with a coachman in a wonderful cape, seated on a box lofty as a throne, and wearing a hat-band as brilliant as a coronet, stopped at the portal of Madam Delacoste's establishment. [6]
Receiving from the wife of this immaculate man, a direction to Mr Garland's, he took the box upon his shoulder and repaired thither directly. [12]
It was Mathilde who saved him from a violent illness, closing the box and leading him downstairs, and whispered something incomprehensible in his ear as she pointed him homeward. [9]
A poor rope-dancer, who had been robbed by a thief in the crowd, of the little tin box containing he pennies he had collected, was running about, ringing his hands and looking for the watchman. [10]
A box of white kids was lying open on the table. [6]
Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which . [10]
The summer-house of which Mr Quilp had spoken was a rugged wooden box, rotten and bare to see, which overhung the river's mud, and threatened to slide down into it. [12]
I fancy that when the right day came she confessed that the moment was when she first saw him enter their box at the opera. [4]
It was late when he left the house, but he took with him a note to Mr. Sage to drop into the box for morning delivery. [4]
At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
You couldn't see what he had on in the back o' the box, anyway. [8]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
While the attendants were disrobing him, he remembered his brother's present, had the box fetched and opened, and then desired to be left alone. [10]
At this he went up to her with downcast eyes, drew a small box out of the breast of his robe, and took out the emerald with the damaged setting. [10]
Then Hume rose, went to a cupboard, took out some sealing wax and matches, and in a moment melted wax was dropping upon the lock of the box containing his Idea. [11]
If I find we can go, I'll try to get a stage box and then you and Mrs. Howells must come to Parker's and go with us to the crucifixion. [5]
Short led the way; with the flat box, the private luggage (which was not extensive) tied up in a bundle, and a brazen trumpet slung from his shoulder-blade. [12]
Now, if we watch every night, we'll be dead sure to see him go out, some time or other, and then we'll snatch that box quicker'n lightning. [5]
The box she was seeking was among the last and, while handing it to Bias, she muttered: "Oh, yes, certainly--it does one good to destroy a foe, but no less to make her foe happy! [10]
The little box was not locked, and the key was in it. [11]
Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
Three months it was from the day Biatt first spoke to me to the day when, with an expert diver, we brought the box to the surface and opened it. [11]
The Mavick box was empty until the overture was half through. [4]
Near the box was a pile of bank notes and a piece of paper covered with figured in pencil. [5]
In part scattered upon the ground at the feet of the two men, and in part jumbled together in a long flat box, were the other persons of the Drama. [12]
And he turned upon me like a fighting-cock and--and he gave me a box on the ear; such a slap, it is burning now--and all sorts of colors danced before my eyes. [10]
The bed was unmade, and on the table beside two empty beer bottles and glasses and the remains of a box of candy--suggestive of a Sunday purchase at a drug store--she recognized Lise's vanity case. [9]
Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she--all composure--pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff. [12]
Behind 'Polyte came two rotund little men perspiring freely, and laden down with various articles,--a bird-cage with two yellow birds, a hat-trunk, an inlaid card box, a roll of scarlet cloth, and I know not what else. [9]
Even one or two purely Protestant books of missionary enterprise, found in a box in her dead mother's room, had had all the charms of poetry and adventure. [11]
Then he rose, took out his knife, and went over to the box as if to break the red seal. [11]
At noon I took a thermometer graded to 127 deg., out of my box, and observed that the mercury was up to 125. [5]
In a confident tone he desired that the box should be placed on the table, and requested one of the council, who understood such matters, to give his opinion. [10]
Princess Helene asked to see the portrait of the aunt's husband on the box lid. [2]
It is easy to keep out of the way of the contribution box and to let the subscription paper go by us to the next door. [6]
Benjamin, in addition to his emigrant's leather box, brought with him some of that pigment that was to dye the locality for generations a deep blue. [9]
Natasha went back to her father in the other box, now quite submissive to the world she found herself in. [2]
Then I happened to glance up at the box where the Governor's wife was--you know what happened. [5]
If I were to come again, Mr. King, I'd come in a yacht, drive up from it in a box on two wheels, with a man clinging on behind with his back to me, and have a cottage with an English gardener. [4]
If you want to be sure not to reach threescore and twenty, get a little box of homoeopathic pellets and a little book of homeopathic prescriptions. [6]
I lost it through helping to take care of a box of guns on a two-hundred-mile railway journey one winter's night. [5]
But--and at the thought he uttered a low imprecation--how could he ride to the joust if his father-in-law closed his strong box which, moreover, was said to be empty? [10]
The man who thought a tarantula had "got him" was mistaken--only a crack in a box had caught his finger. [5]
It seemed as though he cast his burning words and languishing glances at my lady in the box, whereupon there was a deal of nudging round about. [9]
In pursuance of this resolution, he now drew a little table to his bedside, and arranging the light and a small oblong music-book to the best advantage, took his flute from its box, and began to play most mournfully. [12]
One day during this period I remembered my Poem of the World, and instantly had the box brought in which I kept it among German favours, little pink notes, and similar trophies. [10]
Having disposed of this likewise and put the box carefully in her pocket, she said,-- 'I am to accept or reject at once, am I? [12]
Spare your thigh; this kind light only on the box, and seldom there, in fact, if my experience may be trusted. [5]
What was he thinking of as he laid the papers away in the tin box in a drawer, locked it, and put the key in his pocket? [11]
It seems that they had got hold of the dry-goods box packing story about Balloon, one day, and were talking it over when the Colonel came in. [5]
Upon each of these wharf-boats the association's officers placed a strong box fastened with a peculiar lock which was used in no other service but one--the United States mail service. [5]
But every year there come from New York a box of flowers, and every year P'tite Louison send him a 'Merci, Charles, mille fois. [11]
It was the theatre of Rome--of the world--and the man of fashion who could not let fall in a casual and unintentional manner something about "my private box at the Coliseum" could not move in the first circles. [5]
I'm putting in the yarn about the Limburger cheese and the box of guns, too--mighty glad Howells declined it. [5]
The document on the top of the pile in the box related to Cyprus--the name caught her eye. [11]
I still remember the tinder box in the kitchen, the steel, the flint, and the threads dipped in sulphur. [10]
Presently she threw the spray of box from her with an annoyed air, and said: "I forgot myself. [5]
He had placed the Royal box at our disposal, so we invited our friends the Priestleys to go with us, and we all enjoyed the evening mightily. [6]
Boris came to the Rostovs' box, received their congratulations very simply, and raising his eyebrows with an absent-minded smile conveyed to Natasha and Sonya his fiancee's invitation to her wedding, and went away. [2]
It was in the recollection of those transactions that he said: "A box of marrons glaces, please. [4]
A lady entering the next box shot a glance of feminine envy at Natasha. [2]
The "Yarn About the Limburger Cheese and the Box of Guns," like "The Stolen White Elephant," did not find place in the travel-book, but was published in the same volume with the elephant story, added to the rambling notes of "An Idle Excursion. [5]
They turned to the left, through tangled box that wound hither and thither, until they stopped at a stone wall bordering a tree-arched lane. [9]
No more could the Honourable Hilary well be likened to Pandora, for he only opened the box wide enough to allow one mischievous sprite to take wings--one mischievous sprite that was to prove a host. [9]
The pressure within the fort, like a flood, opened the gates of it, despite the sturdily disapproving figure of a young man who stood silent under the sentry box, leaning on his Deckard. [9]
Mr. Augustus Harris, the enterprising and celebrated manager of Drury Lane Theatre, had sent us an invitation to occupy a box, having eight seats, at the representation of "Carmen. [6]
His august Majesty, the Emperor Aurelius, occupied the imperial box, and was the cynosure of all eyes. [5]
Everything being ready, the command was given, "Men, do your duty," and the box being instantly slipped from beneath his feet, he died almost instantaneously. [5]
At seven o'clock the carriage drove up, and after it was packed Don Luis handed me a little box to put in the vehicle. [10]
You'll sit on the box, won't you, Petya? [2]
I didn't see the box, I didn't see the cross. [5]
Young Kubbeling on the box, and the ravens and tomtits and redbreasts in the woods had not many words from us. [10]
Kit got off the box, and said yes, he was. [12]
They march to the box of the city fathers, and formally salute. [5]
Show them to the archangel's box, and turn the lime-light on them! [5]
Putting down in the anteroom whatever might be in his way while greeting Barbara, and carrying the roll of velvet under his arm and a little box in his pocket, he entered the chamber which the old man called his artist workshop. [10]
The box itself, that once primly lined the alleys, was gnarled and shapeless. [9]
That's the one that eat up an entire box of Seidlitz powders, and then hadn't any more judgment than to go and take a drink. [5]
This big fellow, taller by a head than Phanes, shrugged his shoulders contemptuously on hearing that he was to box with the little foreign gentleman. [10]
On the little table beside it, amid several bottles and glasses, the lamp and the box of matches, stood the tiny bell, at whose faint sound one of her nurses invariably hastened in. [10]
Very few would succeed: you have to have a perfectly colossal stock of morals; and you can't get them on a margin; you have to have the whole thing, and put them in your box. [5]
Its grimy, narrow streets, unlovely houses, with shut windows, summer though it was, and no softening influences anywhere, save here and there a box of sickly geraniums in the windows, all struck his mind in a way they had never done before. [11]
Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
The hens performed still more difficult feats, for they drew from a wooden box for each spectator a leaf of a tree, on which certain characters were visible. [10]
I found her still handsome, though somewhat matronly in appearance, seated, with her daughters, in the box of a fashionable nobleman, younger than herself, rich in purse but poor in intellect, and who was openly and notoriously her cavalier servante. [4]
There were four stalls, all replete with brass trimmings, and a box, and the carriage-house was made large enough for the break which Mr. Fern had been getting ready to buy when he had been forced, so unexpectedly, to change his mind. [9]
They are all stalls here; nobody has a box except Boldrick, and it is up in the flies. [11]
It was a square box, covered with painted cloth. [4]
The little fop spent his evening, by the way, in a box opposite, where my Aunt Caroline gabbled to him and Mr. Allen during the whole performance. [9]
Had he not some of the beautiful auburn tresses of Cynthia Rudd in his skate, spruce-gum, and wintergreen box at home? [4]
I am having some fruit packed for my father and brothers; there must be a box for Mena too. [10]
She herself, with some especially favoured ones, occupied a box, which was the nearest thing to being on the stage. [9]
Countess Bezukhova turned smiling to the newcomer, and Natasha, following the direction of that look, saw an exceptionally handsome adjutant approaching their box with a self-assured yet courteous bearing. [2]
Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box. [5]
It was from sheer amazement that his tears ceased to flow--amazement and lack of breath--for the beautiful lady sprang up and seized him in her arms, and called Mathilde, who eventually brought a white and gold box. [9]

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