What is "bandboxes"

Usage examples of "bandboxes".

They staggered into the entrance hall under the weight of several trunks, portmanteaus, and bandboxes.

He motioned to a silent footman, who moved forward somewhat clumsily, bumping one of the countess's bandboxes.

Marina stayed outside with her uncles and the servants just long enough to be loaded with a couple of bandboxes before being shooed inside herself.

I'll show you your room, Marina offered, and took the lead up the stairs, the bandboxes in hand.

Marina offered, and took the lead up the stairs, the bandboxes in hand.

In spite of the unaccountable negligence of the young lady's abigail, in having omitted to pack the special cordial in either of her bandboxes, she ventured to say that Miss was already on the high road to recovery, and, if left to lie quietly in a darkened room for half an hour or so, would presently be as right as a trivet.

When she judged that James had had ample time in which to stable his horses, and, like his master, seek solace in the inn, she fastened her cloak round her neck, picked up her bandboxes, and emerged cautiously from the bedchamber.

He had naturally discussed with his wife the extraordinary affair of the young lady with the bandboxes, and at great length.

The idea of a lovely young thing like she is, wandering about by herself, and nothing but them two bandboxes to call her own!

After perhaps twenty minutes, he heard the hush of skirts, and rose just as a cloaked figure came swiftly round a bend in the walk, carrying two bandboxes.

Blackader, and a number of her new gowns having been delivered in neat bandboxes, her hair having been fashionably cut, and her maid taught to dress it in several approved classical styles, Mrs.

At ten o’clock Miss Taverner, dressed in her habit, and with a handful of spare whip-points thrust through one of her buttonholes, walked into her bedroom where she was fluttering about in the midst of bandboxes and valises, and said coolly: “Well, ma’am, I shall see you presently, I trust.

So although the hackney which conveyed them from the Bazaar to Hanover Square might be rather full of packages and bandboxes, at least it contained no livestock, a circumstance upon which Mr Ringwood considered he had reason to congratulate himself.

What the deuce possessed you to bring a lot of bandboxes to a wedding?

Put those in the cloakroom,” she said to the porter, who had succeeded finally in wrestling the trunks and three large bandboxes onto a luggage barrow.