deed box
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Stratton-Porter, Gene
It might be well to look in the deed box.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
Mur I found the Ravensdale mortgage while rumaging in an old deed box of Coyle's father's, there was a folded paper inside the deed.
From Our American Cousin by Taylor, Tom
Your first secretary tried to open your deed box.
From Honorine by Balzac, Honoré de
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
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