The air of having just come out of a bandbox was more apparent about Mr. Ely in the country even than in town.
He was what might be described as a bandbox sort of man.
During this parleying I had been sitting alone under the umbrella, the rain falling monotonously on its vast surface, running off the glazed lid of my yellow bandbox in streams, and dripping from the brim of August's hat down his patient neck.
I forgot to mention that when she seated herself on the steps she deposited by her side a very capacious bandbox in which, as is the custom among travellers of her sex, she carried a great deal of valuable property.
Nicholas would insist upon carrying the basket, and Miss Snevellicci would insist upon carrying it herself, which gave rise to a struggle, in which Nicholas captured the basket and the bandbox likewise.
He wanted me to give him my bandbox for his, and said Mr. Maidstone had sent him.
The lady, on her part, was about to insist on carrying the bandbox herself; but when Clare came forward, and looked up smiling in her face, she was at once aware that she might trust him.
Yes," rejoined Clare, who did not understand the phrase, "I was sent with a lady to carry her bandbox to the station.
The lad held out his bandboxfor him to take, and his empty hand to take Clare's instead.
Besides these Charles held a bandbox between his knees.
After leaving at the door his hat surrounded with crape, he put down a green bandbox on the table, and began by complaining to madame, with many civilities, that he should have remained till that day without gaining her confidence.
It was not the Richard Cabot she had seen in Waloo for that Richard had always looked as if he had just stepped from a brand new bandbox and this Richard didn't look as if he had ever seen a bandbox.
Rebecca Mary climbed up to the bandbox and looked into it.
As Rebecca Mary's leaden feet carried her up the stairs she wondered if she should tell Granny and show her the proof of her story which was in the bandbox in her closet.
Rebecca Mary thought she would go mad as she stood on the terrace and listened to the chattering gasoline engine or raced up the stairs to see if the bandbox was still on the top shelf of her closet.
Bandbox after bandbox appeared, and when Agamemnon sat down upon his, the applause was immense.
The concierge started toward them as if he desired to impart some valuable information, but suddenly reconsidered, and retreated to hisbandbox of an office and busied himself with the ever-increasing debours.
Kitty closed her eyes for a second, and the neat little bandbox slipped to the sidewalk.
He stopped dead, flung the bandbox over a garden wall, and leaping upward with incredible agility and seizing the copestone with his hands, he tumbled headlong after it into the garden.
At last, however, it was done; and, concealing the bandbox in his smock, the gardener beckoned to Harry and preceded him in the direction of the house.
On this sultry day there was every chance that his complexion would suffer severely; and to walk through so much of London with a bandbox on his arm was a humiliation almost insupportable to a youth of his character.
During this talk they had remained in their original positions - she on the doorstep, he on the side-walk, bareheaded for the sake of coolness, and with the bandbox on his arm.
He found the bandbox where it had been described, arranged his toilette with care, and left the house.
He had walked some little distance, busied with these meditations, before a slight collision with another passenger reminded him of the bandbox on his arm.
You will find a bandbox in the left-hand side of the oak wardrobe; it is underneath the pink slip that I wore on Wednesday with my Mechlin.
In one thing, however, his duty and interest, his generosity and his terrors, coincided - to get rid of the bandbox with the greatest possible despatch.
Then he emptied the brokenbandbox on the table, and stood before the treasure, thus fully displayed, with an expression of rapturous greed, and rubbing his hands upon his thighs.
However, he was got out—here he is again, looking as he always does, as if he had been in a bandbox ever since the last session.
Four of these plays are presented in this book, four which won approval first on the stage of the Bandbox Theatre and later, acted by other players, in various other theatres.
She ushered him into the parlour, however, which was suddenly reduced to a mere bandbox by contrast with him.
It was about the size of a twelve by sixteen rug, and so richly furnished that when he got into it, he felt as if he had been clandestinely concealed in a bandbox lined with rare and costly velvets.
Perhaps some one will leave a bandbox and a baby at her door some dark night.
So he unlocked the door and found a bandboxon the stoop, and the cry seemed to come from inside of it.
The precious bandbox was placed in the car, and the next moment Monica was beside it.
She determined to go on, and so she rose and went gaily forward, the bandbox swinging from her arm.
She scrambled out of the car, and slung the bandbox on her arm--somehow there was company in that.
So the Gardeness took the bandbox from her, bade her wait behind a tree, and with that little toss of the head went to gather the Rose baby which had been sent for in so unheard-of a way.
Feeling safe at last, Monica smiled in triumph; with one hand she raised her bandbox on high, with the other she waved a farewell.
Monica did not quite like being talked to like that, but she held out the bandbox and, supporting himself by it, her new acquaintance limped to where he was led and sat down.
A small bandbox can be easily carried inside of a trunk or box, keeping it steady by filling in heavy articles closely round it.
The bandbox rolled out and the lid came off, and there was her wedding-bonnet in the dust, but she did not mind that.
Cynthia, her rosy cheeks quite pale, still sat in her place, and the tears splashed on her new bandbox cover.
Mrs. Smith, kind soul, forgets the destruction of her bandbox and bonnet, and cares not how long or how loud Smith whistles.
To Hannah I give thebandbox she wanted and all the patch work I leave hoping she 'will remember me, when it you see.
Don't shut yourself up in a bandbox because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take your part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandbox" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baggage; dapper; luggage; natty; sassy; spruce
