collar-box

He untied his tie and put it and his collar away, fastidiously hanging the tie on a special rack and curling the collar just so in the wooden collar-box.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

Old Dr. Westlake, who loved comfort like a cat, protestingly rolled out at night for country calls, and hunted through his collar-box for his G.A. R. button.

Main Street 2004

It is a little early to talk of the holidays, but my Baronite, regarding this thin Vol. of 1783 pages, says he cannot help thinking with what pleasure the City merchant, or his clerk, hastening to the seaside, will pack it up with his collar-box.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893 Various

One stalwart youth had got hold of the round cardboard lid of a collar-box, to which he had affixed two bits of string, and tied it firmly but jauntily on one side of his head.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

Old Dr. Westlake, who loved comfort like a cat, protestingly rolled out at night for country calls, and hunted through his collar-box for his G.A. R. button.

Main Street 1920

Old Dr. Westlake, who loved comfort like a cat, protestingly rolled out at night for country calls, and hunted through his collar-box for his G.A. R. button.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

When she was not at home, it sat on K. 's dresser, propped against his collar-box.

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Two o'clock in the morning, then, and K. in his dressing-gown, with the picture propped, not against the collar-box, but against his lamp, where he could see it.

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

He glanced around the shabby little room, at the sagging bed, the collar-box, the pincushion, the old marble-topped bureau under which

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

You'll find it tucked away in your collar-box in the top drawer of your bureau.

Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Meredith Nicholson 1906