Walked around Chinatown, got a little lost, but then the Canal St subway rose up in the distance like a giant red public call-box leading to the TARDIS. ❋ Jes Battis (2008)
He travels through time and space in what appears to be a 1950s-style blue British police call-box that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. ❋ Littlemissattitude (2009)
My inner Trivial Psychic* let out a squeal, so I waited and watched from my position on the third-floor balcony, immediately above the call-box, as a FedEx man walked towards our building's entrance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Or that his phone call could have been made from a nearby call-box and he was even now listening to her mother's only too obviously trumped-up excuses. ❋ Neels, Betty (1993)
'Where's the nearest call-box?' he asked Moffat, who still seemed interested in the tights. ❋ Rankin, Ian, 1960- (1992)
So, limping badly, he followed Fatty down to the call-box. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1963)
But probably he didn't want his mother to hear what he was saying, so he had gone out to the public call-box. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1963)
‘When he came back from the call-box he’d stopped laughing. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
He went out of the call-box - and stepped right in front of old Clear-Orf, who had been watching him through the glass. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1963)
Maigret, still turning over these rather confused thoughts in his head, went into a bar, ordered a glass of beer and shut himself up in the call-box. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 (1962)
Half a mile away I stopped at the first call-box and got through to London. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1962)
At a quarter past two, after making a brief stop at a call-box, I parked the Corvette in the side turning where I'd found it and squelched along the road in the direction of the drive leading up to the general's house. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
There was no call-box — the instrument was in the cloakroom, and Maigret went towards it, saying: ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1958)
As he was making for the call-box the barman shouted to him: ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1958)
But there was someone already in the public call-box so he had to wait till he got home. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1956)
He debated whether to ring up the Chief Inspector at home, or from a call-box. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1956)
Nor can he have gone into a café or a public call-box to telephone. ❋ Simenon, Georges (1951)
It was a police cyclist bringing the bloodstained handkerchief that had been picked up beside the seventh call-box. ❋ Simenon, Georges (1951)
