Or: on the topic of California place names: Anglo names suggest the force of pioneer personalities - Irvine, Newman, King City - fading contracts in strongboxes. ❋ Unknown (2001)
It took me to the Horn of Africa, where humanitarian aid for Somali refugees shares a hold with Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers for al-Shabaab, US-backed mercenaries, and strongboxes full of ransom cash from Wall Street insurance firms, to be dropped onto the decks of hijacked ships for the pirates. ❋ Matt Potter (2011)
With Adam Smith, the Republican Party contends that the real wealth of a nation is not to be found in the banks and strongboxes, but it is in the prosperity of the people at large; in the amount and values of the homes, goods and chattels possessed by the laboring classes; in the sum total of their material comforts and enjoyments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
No strongboxes and no stockings crammed full of notes. ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)
In time, the company began putting live rattlesnakes in its strongboxes and molding silver coins into immovably heavy seven-hundred-pound cannonballs to deter Harris and such fellow highwaymen as Rattlesnake Dick and Black Bart from lifting them. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)
Francis arrived at Boston in late September and fitted out fourteen customized freight wagons, reinforced to carry a ton apiece, laden with strongboxes packed with coin and welded shut. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
Although Powell was never charged with tax evasion, $800,000 in cash was found in shoeboxes, strongboxes and briefcases in his room at Springfield's Hotel St. Nicholas upon his death. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The richest passengers also had their cabins at the rear, many of whom traveled with their own strongboxes. ❋ Davis Bunn (2009)
And so, in 1988, the gold treasures of Tillya Tepe, along with a number of other objects from the museum, were secretly placed in locked strongboxes and hidden in bank vaults under the presidential palace in Kabul. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There were six strongboxes, one for each grave, locked up in vaults along with the gold bricks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Of the four strongboxes he found, two were locked, one was filled with unmarked prescription bottles and empty vials, and the last one had another pile of receipts, these from 1925. ❋ Tananarive Due (2003)
He noticed a few more strongboxes up on the top shelf, but they had lost their intrigue after the disappointment of the last one. ❋ Tananarive Due (2003)
Hence, in the pre-metal-detector years of outlawry, those burying substantial caches risked never recovering their gold or silver [nonferrous metals] unless the caches were marked by signs or code on the surface or were buried in ferrous containers [iron washpots, safes, strongboxes, milk cans]. ❋ WARREN GETLER (2003)
Those “lost depositories” obviously would not be guarded, nor would smaller sites with shallow buried caches i.e., fruit jars, kettles, wash-pots, strongboxes and safes stuffed with coins that could be picked up relatively quickly. ❋ WARREN GETLER (2003)
M3at - My lady has been doing [kegels] lately.
Sp3rm - You'll be [bangin out] a [strongbox] in no time. ❋ Sp3rm Doner (2009)
