pencil boxes
- plural of pencil box.
Example Sentences
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Throughout the land last week school children were buying pencil-boxes and book-straps, getting fitted with new shoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trix confessed to one weakness,—only one!—an overwhelming greed for pencil-boxes and sharpeners, and the contents of the wooden shelf above the desk testified to her indulgence in this craving.
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
At precisely five minutes to four the big bell clanged out a warning, dictionaries were shut, exercise-books handed in, pencil-boxes replaced in desks, and the class filed downstairs to the big schoolroom.
From Monitress Merle by Brazil, Angela
The girls wandered round, looking at an assortment of brooches, penknives, pencil-boxes, paints, chalks, books, music, blotters, photo frames, toys, and a number of little trifles such as girls love.
From The Head Girl at the Gables by Brazil, Angela
And saddest of all, the windows of the stationery stores were filled with pencil-boxes and blank books and other horrible reminders of the opening of school.
From Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
