violin-case

When she had closed the black lid of her violin-case, Helena stood a moment as if at a loss.

The Trespasser 2003

For a moment he hesitated, afraid of the threatening scene, then, with a decisive movement, he took her violin-case out of her hand.

Maurice Guest 2003

With his black violin-case he hurried down the street, then halted to pity the flowers massed pallid under the gaslight of the market-hall.

The Trespasser 2003

In each of the arm-chairs, reposing across the arms, was a violin-case.

The Trespasser 2003

Here and there came a member of the orchestra; with violin-case or black-swathed wind-instrument in hand, he deftly threaded his way through the throng, bestowing, as he went, a hasty nod of greeting upon a colleague, a sweep of the hat on an obsequious pupil.

Maurice Guest 2003

‘Tomorrow,’ he thought, as he laid his violin-case across the arms of a wicker chair.

The Trespasser 2003

Malone crossed the road, Clements hurrying to catch up with him, and dropped a dollar in the violin-case of a young girl playing some country-and-western number.

Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994

He looked at Clements, who reluctantly took out a fifty-cent piece and dropped it in the violin-case.

Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994

The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack -- even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco -- all met my eyes as I glanced round me.

The Adventure of the Empty House 1982

The figure disappeared for an instant within the doorway and the light went out; then he reappeared, carrying a violin-case under his arm, which he screened from the wet with the folds of his cloak, carefully, as a mother would cover the face of her child.

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs