Curled on the lid of the strongbox was a jet rosary, its small crucifix shining in the moonlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

Each told me that they did not take the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

He replaces the strongbox, the rack, and the toys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

The strongbox room met the conditions of its name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

Micheline's love from her, and rummage her strongbox!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The hinges creaked as Vivar closed the strongbox lid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

It was a strongbox of a type favored by Beryl's wealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Company]

"He also took all the silvers from the lower strongbox.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall of Angels]

A bear, strong as he is, can't open a lock on a strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of Creation]

His head aches as he thinks of the golds in his strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

Not after the retreating British, but after the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

Wataru got up and went to a small strongbox on a low table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Ilna sniffed as she walked across the room to the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Wataru nodded and put the gold back, relocking the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Then he lifted the strongbox and carried it back up the canyon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

“Would you trust the English with what is in the strongbox?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

At the top of those steps, black like the walls, was the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

The detectives found a metal strongbox in the bookcase which was locked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tumbleweed]

Harper grunted as he settled the strongbox more comfortably on his pommel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

Vivar closed the leather box and placed it carefully back in the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

She removed the strongbox, closed the chest and placed the metal one on top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

On the second day of 1809 the chasseur Colonel almost captured the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

The strongbox was put back on the mule and the sentries posted on its flanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

Across the room a strongbox was fastened to the floor and the wall by iron bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

The light was dim beneath the trees and whatever was inside the strongbox was dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

She knew he kept the most florid ones in a strongbox covered with studs and locked up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

The silver strongbox sat gleaming like a miniature trunk; it was even shaped like one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Vivar, his back to him, was already on his knees in front of the mysterious strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

And inside the space was an iron strongbox about eight inches long and six inches wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoodwink]

He gestured at the strongbox and two of his men, hurrying to obey, lifted the treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

But he wouldn't have that; I realised later he probably had his strongbox in the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

In any case, the son left -1000 in the family strongbox and a sloop in the Hudson River.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth Side of the Triangle]

They had died for the strongbox which the survivors carried through a frozen countryside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

Derg cried, his dog-faced form as small as when Cashel first glimpsed him in the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

But some men are coming here, and I need their permission to reveal what is in the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

On a table in the corner lay a parchment with a map that showed the location of the strongbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference

"Any ideas how he spirited the strongbox from the cellar under the watchful eyes of the others?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

The strongbox itself was a chest made of a wood so old that it appeared as black and shiny as coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]