collection box

a box or other container used to collect offerings of money, especially in a church.

QUIZZES

It’d be a real faux pas to miss this quiz on the words from August 3–9, 2020!

Question 1 of 7

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When the usher passed he emptied the contents of his pocket in the collection-box.
Comrades|Thomas Dixon
At the same time I dropped a lot of small silver into their boat without waiting for the collection-box.
Abroad with the Jimmies|Lilian Bell
Or are we to take our hands out of our pockets, with the fingers closed, and jingle some coins into the collection-box?
Weatherby's Inning|Ralph Henry Barbour
You can't poke your head out of the door without a collection-box being shoved at you.
Germany in War Time|Mary Ethel McAuley

I saluted it and deposited a small offering in the collection-box.
An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet|A. Henry Savage Landor