But most of the penitents came down, very sprightly and fresh, as having done a real good substantial deed which it would take a good deal of sin to counterbalance; and the old gentleman in the watch-box was down upon them with his canister while they were in this humour, I promise you. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But we still have one tornado warning that is out there, and yet another severe weather watch-box has been posted by the Storms Prediction Center out of Norman, Oklahoma. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It had one unusual luxury, however, in the shape of a wardrobe of painted wood, something smaller than an English watch-box; or if this comparison should be insufficient to convey a just idea of its dimensions, they may be estimated from the fact of my having lived for fourteen days and nights in the firm belief that it was a shower-bath. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was an ordinary Parisian house, with a gateway, on one side of which was a glazed watch-box, with a sliding way, on one si panel in the window, indicating a loge de concierge. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The watch-box that you see kind of shifts a little bit to the north as the satellite loop advances because we are looking for the potential and the threat for tornadoes to (INAUDIBLE) to the north, the panhandle of Florida as this storm advances on in and gets closer. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Right now looking at our radar perspective, you can see this watch-box here slowly shifting a little to the north and west. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But right now the watch-box means that potential exists for that to occur. ❋ Unknown (2005)
At last it suddenly reappeared, and, standing motionless and upright upon its legs at the entrance of its place of refuge, it looked very like a sentinel on duty in his watch-box. ❋ Lucien Biart (1863)
It was an ordinary Parisian house, with a gateway, on one side of which was a glazed watch-box, with a sliding panel in the window, indicating a loge de concierge. ❋ Unknown (1845)
It had one unusual luxury, however, in the shape of a wardrobe of painted wood, something smaller than an English watch-box: or, if this comparison should be insufficient to convey a just idea of its dimensions, they may be estimated from the fact of my having lived for fourteen days and nights in the firm belief that it was a shower-bath. ❋ Unknown (1842)
'Who have they got in this here watch-box in mournin'? ' ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
It was an ordinary Parisian house, with a gateway, on one side of which was glazed watch-box, with a sliding panel in the window, indicating a loge de concierge. ❋ Unknown (1841)
He got out of bed at half-past twelve o'clock one winter's night, to half-baptise a washerwoman's child in a slop-basin, and the gratitude of the parishioners knew no bounds -- the very churchwardens grew generous, and insisted on the parish defraying the expense of the watch-box on wheels, which the new curate had ordered for himself, to perform the funeral service in, in wet weather. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Turkey carpet, bearing about the same relative proportion to the size of the room, as a lady's pocket-handkerchief might to the floor of a watch-box. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
It was stated that he slept habitually in a watch-box in the city; in a cab at a mews, where a cab proprietor gave him a shelter; in the Duke of York's Column, &c., the wildest of these theories being put abroad by the facetious and imaginative Huxter. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
The only sentinel that guarded the coast (a coast very badly guarded, seeing that a landing from large ships was impossible), without having been able to follow the example of the fishermen, who were gone to bed, imitated them so far, that he slept at the back of his watch-box as soundly as they slept in their beds. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)
And this pretty little columned affair -- is it a watch-box? ❋ Unknown (1824)
