How To Use Bandbox In A Sentence
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The best of it is, -- you will admit that this is neat, Fluffy, even if your slavery to the virtues compels your disapproval, -- the best of it is, the bandbox is the property of our Puggy.
Peggy
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The so-called Philadelphia bandbox was a tiny row house, ten to sixteen feet wide, built for renting to recent immigrants; on fashionable Society Hill the houses were wider and grander but were also built in rows.
Living Smaller
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The leader may say, for example: "It being a beautiful spring day, the _old lady with the bandbox_ [here the old lady must get up and turn around] decided to visit her daughter, and so took a _seat_ in the _stage coach_ [everybody turns around]; she found the _cushions_ [cushions turn around] very comfortable until the _fat old gentleman_ [fat old gentleman turns around] got in, when the place seemed to her very crowded, and she was glad to open the _windows_; the _driver_ cracked his _whip_, the _wheels_ creaked, the _horses_ strained at the _harness_, and away they started on their journey," etc.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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Mr. Bantling, who was of rather a slow and a discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him by the influence of a shining, challenging eye and a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted.
The Portrait of a Lady
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Within fifteen minutes the hall was a sea of bandboxes, hampers, portmanteaux.
A Wicked Gentleman
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The bandboxes illustrate another use wallpapers were often put to.
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Instead, since Sunday they've whittled five games off New York's seven-game National League East lead in an electric atmosphere at the bandbox which is Citizens Bank Park.
Phillies working hard for a fairy tale ending
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Her bandboxes and portmanteaux are filled with her best clothes and all her jewels.
The Virginians
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Nor was it confined to these ebullitions; for besides crushing a bandbox, with a bonnet in it, he seriously damaged Mr Pecksniff's luggage, by ardently hauling it down from the top of the house; and in short evinced, by every means in his power, a lively sense of the favours he had received from that gentleman and his family.
Martin Chuzzlewit
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– "Dear Ma'am, and what's the matter?" says I. – "Matter enough, (says she) don't you see my bandbox is wet through, and my best bonnet here spoiled, besides my lady's, and all by the rain coming in through that gallery window, that you might have got mended if you'd had any sense, Thady, all the time we were in town in the winter.
Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
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He said this one's playing like a "bandbox," and that he'd told Mark Teixeira he should hit 50 home runs here.
Undefined
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After flowering they can be lifted and replaced with summer bedding, but to keep the bandbox appearance stick to flowers of one colour.
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In spite of the long, hot train ride, Jane arrived looking as if a bandbox.
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Author of "The Bandbox," "The Day of Days," etc. I.lustrated by A.I. Keller.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza
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The Shakers are renowned for the simplicity and clarity of line in all their tools, from bandboxes to chairs to harvesting blades.
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Wallpapers decorated more than walls in earlier times, so examples in the collection were found lining trunks, covering pamphlets and bandboxes, and decorating fireboards.
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On top are two charming bandboxes, the utilitarian product of New Hampshire mill towns, about 1830.
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Mr. Bantling, who was of a rather slow and discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him with the spectacle of a brilliant eye and a kind of bandbox neatness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted.
Chapter XX
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The exhibition explores the blue pigments, fabrics, papers, and paints used in seascapes and landscapes, floral bandboxes, a charming calamanco quilt, and blue and white ceramics.
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Bertram looks like he stepped out of the proverbial bandbox, with a tuxedo that fits his athletic frame perfectly, and a silk shirt that shows off his brown-black eyes and deep, dimpled smile.
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Four stout posts, much taller still than the "bandbox" itself, were set at equal distances around it, and their extremities were joined by stout beams which passed across over the top of the gasometer.
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
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Reggie watched a footman hand another bandbox up to the Ashford coachman.
ON A WICKED DAWN
