deed box
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The box indicated was one of ordinary thin sheet iron, japanned black—something like what is called a deed box.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
Before I left I gave him a drink, an' he asked me to feel in his pants pocket an' get the key an' hand him the deed box, till he'd see if everything was right.
From A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
This paper, dated only a few months before my father's death, was in this pocket-book, the other paper in the deed box, of which his executors took possession.
From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Emma Marshall
Wingrave, who had been engrossed in the contents of his deed box, watched him with immovable face.
From The Malefactor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
When Mr Burrows came in and received the news of Mr Burke’s death, his first idea was to open the deed box bearing his name, to see if there was a will there.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
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