deed box
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Marshall, Emma
It might be well to look in the deed box.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
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 Morrison, Arthur
I never touched his chest key in my life, till I handed him his deed box Friday afternoon.
From A Daughter of the Land by Stratton-Porter, Gene
Wingrave, who had been engrossed in the contents of his deed box, watched him with immovable face.
From The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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