Inside thisbox are eighty crystal figures; each one represents a birthday, and lies, as you see, in a separate compartment.
That duty attended to, and Dick was set at the oars, while Dab selected from Ford's box just the very hooks and lines their owner had made least account of.
Then you must have two pieces of smooth board, to put the papers between, and a box full of stones for a presser.
Ford would have given half the hooks and lines in his box if he could have caught from Dick or Dab the curious "knack" they seemed to have of coaxing the biggest of the finny folks to their bait and then over into the boat.
The box was caught in the net of a fisherman of the isle of Seriphos, by whom its inmates were put safely on shore.
Bale after bale and box after box were tossed ruthlessly out upon the raging sea until little was left in the ship, save the bulky and less valuable portion of the cargo.
He chanced to have a box of pills with him, and tried one, although with much hesitation and fear, for he had got them from a miner who could not tell what they were composed of, but who assured him they were a sovereign remedy for the blues!
Tom, you will find a box on the table in my room; you can keep the contents--a letter in it will explain.
These he transferred into the wooden box until it was full.
On looking more fixedly at him, he recognised the young porter who had carried up the box to the merchant's house.
We now put in the box the sky negative, and readjust our sheet of paper until after proper focusing the desired portion of the sky occupies the portion reserved for it, leaving the thumb-tacks as a guide when we put our bromide on the screen.
In constructing the apparatus, for use with condensers and artificial light, the same provision should be made in the negative box for inserting a piece of colored or ground glass as was made in the daylight apparatus.
An opening similar to F should be made in the other side of the box to permit lateral adjustments when we come to use the apparatus, besides enabling us to put the negative in or withdraw it from either side.
F is an opening cut in the side of the negative box two inches or a little less from the back of the box, AD, and wide enough to admit the free passage of a negative in a kit or other holder.
Now with the negative box in place, some arrangement must be made for holding the lens, which can be the lens used for making the negative.
ABCD is a strong and neatly made box open at both ends, and about two inches larger each way than the largest negative from which enlargements are to be made.
It can be made to run on a track or otherwise, and it can also be made so as to admit of either vertical or lateral adjustment or both, or it can be nothing more than an ordinary box set on a table.
The negativebox and screen, however, remain as given.
On the inside of the box are tacked strips, GGGG, to serve as a guide to the kit when placing it in the box.
The details of a box for this purpose can best be shown by a diagram (Fig.
Then Lizzie sat down on the floor beside the red-lined box and burst into tears.
A Persian merchant, with a box of jewellery and many fine things, would like to spread his wares at their feet?
Then Lizzie got a box and lined it with red flannel, and Chammy was put to bed in it every night.
Then there is no sanitary boxof earth placed behind each pen, and you, Mr Silk, ought to know that a well-trained cat is the most cleanly animal on earth.
These percentages were taken from the combined results of the tests made at both incubator and ice box temperature.
With a modification of the Wassermann technique where the tests were allowed to stand for four hours at ice box temperature to fix complement, instead of the usual one hour at 37 deg.
We descended the great box cañon, and scaled its upper end, following near the voices of a cascade.
Then suddenly we would find ourselves on the brink of a great box cañon from three to seven thousand feet deep, several miles wide, and utterly precipitous.
A box or so of hob-nails for your own boots, a waxed end and awl, a whetstone, a file, and a piece of buckskin for strings and patches complete the list.
This I did by distributing twenty-five English sovereigns among various officials, beginning with the acting-governor and ending with a drunken black sweep who sat in a kind of sentry box on the quay.
Henri Marais's money had to be got out of the strong box and arranged in a belt of buck's hide that I had strapped about me.
Lady Francis was never considered by her friends to be beautiful, and the general opinion at the time was that the legacy was intended for a lady who occupied a box next to that in which Lady Frances sat when at the Opera.
The company having alighted, Lady Harrington was conducted to herbox by the Vice-Chamberlain.
He who takes a pinch of this powder in this box and therewith says "Mutabor," can change himself into any animal, and also understand the language of animals.
The Caliph put the box with the magic powder in his girdle, and having ordered his suite to remain behind, he and the Grand Vizier set out alone on the journey.
He carried a box in which he had all sorts of wares, pearls, and rings, pistols with richly inlaid stocks, goblets, and combs.
Last night there came a silversmith from Pforzheim with a great box under his arm.
A spirit seemed following behind him, and uttering lamentations from every box and press.
The shallow covers fitted each box with a telescope joint.
Sooner or later, these essays, signed 'Experimenter,' are liable to find their way into the contributionbox at the door of the Press Club.
In the process of packing, each box and cover was lined with thin sheets of parafine paper, as an additional guard against moisture.
Into this box every man, woman and child was invited to drop such written scraps, signed or unsigned, brief or lengthy, as they might be moved to offer for publication.
On this occasion he presently missed that iron box which the methodist had so dexterously conveyed out of his pocket, as we mentioned in the last chapter.
We made an early start this morning, and in twelve miles came to the upper waters of the Box Elder Creek, which is a clear, limpid stream, affording an unfailing supply of water.
This gave me strength enough to mount my horse and ride to camp, eighteen miles farther on, on a tributary of the Box Elder Creek.
The boy opened a drawer in a bureau and drew out a box of dominos.
If he had to give up hope, he would feel obliged to return the envelope to the box from which he had taken it.
There is a wooden box about half a foot below the surface of the earth.
A rude wooden box was put together, and Peter was placed in it, dressed as he was at the time of his death.
His eyes sought out the box that contained the gold pieces.
Had he been aware that directly beneath him was a box containing a hundred dollars in gold he would have been electrified and full of joy.
Sybil sprang at the proposal, and Joe was duly summoned from his seat on the box of the carriage before the door.
I fetches her sich a box of the years, as I shouldn't wonder if they ring yet, though that was a matter of nigh two months ago!
In the rosewood box was a brooch and a gold ring--Cynthia Ware's wedding ring--and two small slips of yellow paper.
Jethro rose and opened the rawhide trunk and handed the little rosewoodbox to his friend.
Jethro," he said presently, "there is a little box lying in the top of my trunk over there in the corner.
One evening Lem Hallowell, after depositing a box of trimmings at Ephraim Prescott's harness shop, drove up to the platform of the store with the remark that "things were gittin' pretty hot down to the capital in that franchise fight.
There was still another and very mysterious present, this being a huge box of roses, addressed to Miss Cynthia Wetherell, which was delivered on Christmas morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "box" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
