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Definition of Bandboxes
1. bandbox [n] - See also: bandbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandboxes
Literary usage of Bandboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Silk-worms by Joseph Hazzi (1828)
"bandboxes for the hatching of the eggs.—The smaller ones are made of pasteboard,
and the larger ones of thin board. Five square inches, at least, ..."
2. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"With four starved, and perhaps spavined hacks, he slowly sets forth, 'under a
mountain of bandboxes: ' at his side sits the wandering virago; ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1899)
"With four starved, and perhaps spavined hacks, he slowly sets forth, ' under a
mountain of bandboxes'; at his side sits the wandering virago; ..."
4. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1838)
"With four starved, and perhaps spavined hacks, he slowly sets forth, ' under a
mountain of bandboxes: ' at his side sits the wandering virago ; in front of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"With four starved, und perhaps spavined, hacks, he slowly sets forth ' under a
mountain of bandboxes ;' at his side sits the wandering virago, ..."
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