"box" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ambassador Oscagne arrived about fifteen minutes later bearing an alabaster box on a blue velvet cushion.
- Some stories, such as that of "Legion" in Mark 5:9 (paralleling Polyphemus ) and that of the woman with an alabaster box of ointment in Mark 14:3-9 (paralleling Eurycleia ), may be based on Homer's Odyssey according to Dennis R. MacDonald and Richard Carrier.
- She took the communal purse out of her cloak and from it she pulled a small alabaster box, the sort that was used to store the precious ointments that women used to anoint the bodies of the dead at burial.
- He held out his hand and Judas slammed the alabaster box into it, then stormed out of the house.
- Antesiodorus scattered the contents of a little alabaster box in a broad arc toward the dogs.
- And she had a son who was a druggist, to whom she said, "Take heed thou sell not this alabaster box of spikenard-ointment, although thou shouldst be offered three hundred pence for it."
- Mr. Qurei gave the Israeli Speaker a carved alabaster box inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
- You visit it through a kind of alabaster box - masses of ponderous masonry and drains and all that kind of Roman business.
- LS Collection carries a $20 alabaster box as well as a $13,500 set of 12 sterling silver champagne flutes with a matching cooler.
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