– "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." ❋ Unknown (1800)
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. ❋ Unknown (1991)
"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." ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)
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. ❋ Unknown (2007)
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. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1917)
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. ❋ Unknown (1881)
He said this one's playing like a "bandbox," and that he'd told Mark Teixeira he should hit 50 home runs here.
Do you think anyone in the Dodgers dugout is complaining about Chavez Ravine and its "bandbox" dimensions after Victorino's linedrive homer cleared the rightfield fence? ❋ Unknown (2008)
"I am delighted with Rome -- as I would be with a bandbox, that is, it is a fine thing to see, finer than Greece; but I have not been here long enough to affect it as a residence, and I must go back to ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. ❋ Unknown (2003)
With three games scheduled this weekend, the Yankees hope to survive—and quickly head back to their bandbox in the Bronx. ❋ Jared Diamond (2011)
He stood there, in Norfolk jacket, pigskin puttees, and all the rest of the fashionable get-up out of a bandbox, sneering at me covered with filth and grease to the eyebrows and looking like a navvy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If he wasn't juicing, which he likely was, he far, far and away had far more power than Bonds who had to advantage of hitting in what amounts to a bandbox of a park (3 Rivers). ❋ Unknown (2009)
He often launched shots over the short right-field wall at the Brooklyn bandbox, rewarding a waiting throng that gathered on Bedford Avenue. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Ha! You're a Cubs fan, you're probably used to balls flying out of that bandbox called Wrigley. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)
"How much would you expect?" the captain was asking, -- a most unsealike captain, in Daughtry's opinion; rather, a spick-and - span, brisk little business-man or floor-walker just out of a bandbox. ❋ Unknown (2010)
NEW YORK — New Yankee Stadium no longer is playing like a bandbox. ❋ Unknown (2010)
