"She says thank you, but it was just an empty cigarette box."
I opened the cigarette box on the table and took out a Gauloise.
A green cigarette box was sitting on the glass coffee table.
I'd feel better about this if he'd given you a cigarette box.
I got a cigarette box and held it out to her.
Then his hand went to the cigarette box on the desk.
"That's a peculiar thing to have on a cigarette box."
He went to get a cigarette box from a table by the window.
The three men made notes in cigarette boxes and on scrap paper.
But this time there was nothing except an empty cigarette box and that didn't count.