Compass Box

It only remained for me to return all round, after five minutes of petrified stupidity, the hand-grasps that had been offered from every quarter of the compass-box. ❋ Various (N/A)

The decks were cleaned, prayers said, breakfast eaten, and the rough plan of Oxenham's hiding-place nailed down on the compass-box, where all could see it. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

A faint gleam came through the glass below the compass-box. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)

Stahl stood back from the compass-box whereon they leaned, and putting a hand upon his companion's shoulder, looked a moment into his eyes. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)

But Billy Simpson, in mind perhaps of the hundred ounces in the compass-box, insisted that he'd just as soon as not. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

His gaze shivered and fixed itself on the Master's, as in a compass-box you may see the needle tremble to magnetic north. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The moment that these two accurately coincide you pull toward you a small lever within easy reach of your hand, and the two arms glide in through the slit in the side of the compass-box, passing one on each side of the needle on the edge of the card, and your apparatus is then connected up ready for action. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The compass-box and hanging-compass, invented by the English cleric, ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

Mr Felton meanwhile had lifted the cover of the compass-box, into which he now inserted the small magnet, so that it pulled the needle a quarter of the circle round, and made it appear that our course was due north. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

Bramble took the glass off the top of the compass-box, lifted up the card, and then showed me the needle below, which pointed to the north. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)