Dutch cheese, keep it carefully in your play-box or in your desk; but don't let your white mice get at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892] Reference

A large book, interleaved with blotting-paper, was disinterred from the play-box, and Bobbie sat down before it solemnly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference

But I was bound to go, for I wanted some wire to finish a cage I was making for my dormouse, who was running loose in my play-box and making everything in an awful mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

The labour of packing my play-box and writing labels for my luggage had given me a momentary thrill, but for the rest I had moved among my insurgent comrades with a chilled heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

I was conscious that the place had an unpleasant smell, and I was already driven to thinking of my pocket-money and my play-box -- agreeable thoughts which I had made up my mind in the train to reserve carefully for possible hours of unhappiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

Don't know your own purse-strings, "spluttered the denouncer, growing incoherent with rising fury;" sit at home with your little play-box of a works down here, with fancy hutches for your rabbits of workmen, clubs, toys, kitchen ranges, hot and cold laid on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

I thought strenuously of my brother's stories, of my play-box packed for a voyage, of the money in my pocket increased now by my eldest brother's unexpected generosity; and by dint of these violent mental exercises I had reduced my mind to a comfortable stupor by the time I reached the school gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

The piping boy sprang up from the play-box and stood away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortitude] Reference

There was a little door in it, which opened on their ringing; and a clumsy, untidy man came out and fetched Philip's tin trunk and his play-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Human Bondage] Reference

Young girls were encouraged to play-box with their maids, and New York City's Madison Academy taught its female students to both box and wrestle.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Haven Advocate: News] Reference

There is an incessant manipulation of neighbours 'gossip and play-box tittle-tattle, all wrapped up in perfidious good taste to mask their flavour and smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral] Reference

Walter's play-box and portmanteau to one of the school servants, directed Mr Evson across the court and along some cloisters to the house of Dr Lane, the headmaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference

When his trunk and play-box were sent in, the approaching cleavage between our brother, who now belonged to the future, and ourselves, still claimed by the past, was accentuated indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age] Reference

Indeed, I am interested in all wines, and have been all my life, from the raisin wine that a schoolfellow kept secreted in his play-box up to my last discovery, those notable Valtellines, that once shone upon the board of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silverado Squatters] Reference

Indeed, I am interested in all wines, and have been all my life, from the raisin wine that a schoolfellow kept secreted in his play-box up to my last discovery, those notable Valtellines, that once shone upon the board of Caesar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silverado Squatters] Reference

He was scarcely a moment taking off his muddy boots and hiding them in the bottom of his play-box; then he put on his slippers, dabbed over the front of his head with a wet hair brush, smeared a little water over his face and hands, wiped the dirt off on the towel, and crept downstairs again in a few moments, as softly as he had crept up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul the Courageous] Reference

Dragging his play-box softly out from under the bed, he plunged his hand to the bottom and soon drew out his troublesome boots; then tucking them under his coat, which barely served to cover them, he slid down the banisters to save all noise, and tore out into the yard, and around the corner to the boot-house, as though a pack of wolves was after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul the Courageous] Reference

He represented to Mr Root the little honour that he would gain in the contest, and the certain loss -- the damage to his property and to his reputation -- the loss of scholars, and of profit; and he begged him to remember that every play-box in the school-room was filled with fireworks, and that they were all determined, -- and sorry he was in this case to be obliged to uphold such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference