She brought me a powder-box, and I slightly shook the puff over my hat, and flapt one side of it, though the lace looked a little too gay for my covering; and, slouching it over my eyes, Shall I be known, think you, Madam? ❋ Unknown (2006)
I sat for a while at my mother's dressing-table before I could take up the tarnished silver powder-box that had waited ten years for the return of its owner. ❋ King, Laurie R. (2005)
She carried in her pocket a dainty little ivory powder-box, as large as a nut, the interior of which contained a tiny mirror; and often, while walking, she held it open in her hand and raised it to her eyes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Everything was in perfect order, even to the powder-box and the cologne bottles on the dresser. ❋ Chester K. Steele (N/A)
A hot shot, about this time, struck a powder-box, on which was sitting the powder-boy, he, poor fellow, was blown up, and another near him was dreadfully scorched. ❋ Various (N/A)
Eileen Cavendish was busy in front of the glass, and half turned, holding a diminutive powder-box in one hand and a scrap of swans-down in the other. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)
While we waited she took out a little, gold powder-box with a mirror in the lid, shook the poor little puff as though she loathed it, and dabbed her lovely nose. ❋ Unknown (1922)
She put a lorgnette into her little bag, along with her powder-box, handkerchief and smelling salts, there was even a little silver box of peppermint drops, in case she might begin to cough. ❋ Unknown (1922)
In a corner was a cabinet of gilt and glass, filled with Dresden-china figurines and toy tables and a carven Swiss musical powder-box. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
She put a lorgnette into her little bag, along with her powder-box, handkerchief and smelling salts, -- there was even a little silver box of peppermint drops, in case she might begin to cough. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)
She carries a hand-bag of gold, upon which are attached such trifles as a gold cigarette-case, a gold powder-box, pencils, and the like_. ❋ Eugene Walter (1907)
Having tilted the lid up, he pulled out the pins from a pincushion, but was saved in time; he was curious about a powder-box, and came mewing downstairs a Peter in white; he did not despise the birds out of a hat; he lost his temper when he saw his rival in the looking-glass, and was beside himself with rage when the glass swung round and he saw only a plain board. ❋ William Patten (1902)
Then chuckling to herself, she replaced the powder-box on the dressing table, and went to her own room. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
She wandered about the room with the powder-box still in her hand, and as she paused a moment at Grandma's bedside, a brilliant idea came to her. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
Now I will give you the present I promised you, and I think it will be this very same silver powder-box. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
It was during the month following, unless I am mistaken, that, when I was once more writing a letter to Cardinal Morone, I looked for a certain powder-box which had been missing for some long time, and, when I lifted up a sheet of paper in order to powder it with dust gathered up from the floor of the room, there was the powder-box, hidden beneath the sheet. ❋ Unknown (1886)
In the course of this voyage in pursuit of the enemy, not a musket or arquebus shall be fired, nor a powder-box touched, until after his discovery. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)
Getting no reply, he opened it, and tiptoeing hastily to the dressing-stand, he tucked the packet under the powder-box. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)
He pushed aside the blue glass powder-box, the vial of brilliantine and the brushes. ❋ Unknown (1881)
