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Usage examples of cashbox.

The safe was not opened, the cashbox was closed, and had three thousand dollars in it.

It is true that the safe was not open, but there was an ordinary cashbox on the table, with three thousand dollars in it.

He delighted in her tale and acted out her feats of swinging through the air from a rope on the stage to protect the cashbox from robbers.

As his private cashbox had been saved, owing to their vigilance and honesty, he promised to distribute its contents among them when he returned.

Kea noticed, as he slid unobtrusively to the cashbox, that the man was a Samoan.

Khesatan shirt of white spidersilk shot through with fine gold thread, added a loose velvet day coat of subdued russet, and transferred most of the contents of the front-office cashbox into an inside pocket.

The buttons are small, square, plump, like the mints they serve next to the cashbox in a fancy restaurant.

Quite the contrary, it was only with great difficulty that my grandmother and her daughter were able to conceal their cashbox, which consisted of a tin plate covered by another tin plate and contained more copper than silver, from the sad and thirsty gaze of the gunpowder-maker.

I left the breakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.

Inside, filling one end and nestling next to joints of lamb and boxes of beefburgers, was a stack of three large gray metal cashboxes, each one closely wrapped in trans-parent plastic sheeting.

You understand, it signifies nothing to me so long as you pay for your lessons out of your own cashbox.

Watching the Wenshar eagles, Peninsular stallins, and one or two of the silver pieces weight-minted with the mark of the House of Stratus—one of the most reliable coinages of the dozens circulating in the Middle Kingdoms—change hands, he guessed that Dogbreath had had the presence of mind to loot the inn cashbox in the confusion of the fire before joining the bucket brigade in the yard.

They stole two cashboxes containing 40 guilders, blank checkbooks and, worst of all, coupons for 330 pounds of sugar, our entire allotment.

He then sold them again to the wholesalers—the whole-hoggers, as he called them—and rilled his cashbox with Turkish pounds and gold napoleons.

It was an office the least amount of office you could get: a small table, one chair, a cheap cashbox, a vacuum flask, a dirty cup and a copy of the Daily Mirror.