workbox

He reached up to the top shelf for his workbox.

Her workbox had been upset, the contents spilled on the floor.

He sent her a small engraved knife, a workbox, a spool, and other gifts.

Putting down the knife, Madeleine fetched her aunt's workbox from beside the fireplace.

To begin with boxwood, one workbox is decorated in pen-work designs of flowers and vines.

There was a book on the floor, an open workbox, a piece of embroidery on the table with a thimble and scissors beside it.

A toolbox (also called toolkit, tool chest or workbox) is a box to organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools.

'In Mother's workbox,' Terry said listlessly as she eyed the frothy creation on the bed.

Downtown Minneapolis is a workbox of modernist architecture, blocks of glass and chrome and white marble.

'Hold on to the workbox.'

"I inspect a job while the plumber is still working and look at what kind of solder is in his workbox," Mr. Spahr said.

At a sort of workbox in the window of this subterranean breakfast-room sat an elderly lady with a singularly high colour and almost startling silver hair.

Personal interviews in Workbox, The World of Embroidery, Workshop on the Web and Stitches.

The half-completed sculpture lay where she'd left it on the desk, the workbox open next to it, the delicate stone-working instruments laid out in their trays.

Gangbox (also gang box) is a colloquial term utilized in the construction industry, referring to a toolbox or workbox that can be accessed by multiple workers.

She suspects her sister-in-law Georgina stole them from her workbox and is concerned she will read them to Aurora's husband Teddy.

Cadac Organice Workbox can be used to build productive serial and parallel state workflows to automate business processes.

A The first greetings were over and now Lucy was wandering rather aimlessly round the room, touching a china dog here, an antimacassar there, the plastic workbox in the window.

There is also an elaborate Oriental-style workbox, with complicated drawers for Jane's sewing - proof of the importance that sewing and embroidery held in the lives of Georgian middle-class women.

Sylvia, you are the bravest creature in the world, and when we get home I shall give you my little ivory workbox to show how sorry I am for having led you into such a scrape."

"No, never: we might do what we pleased; ransack her desk and her workbox, and turn her drawers inside out; and she was so good- natured, she would give as anything we asked for."

She would take only small things that would go in her case or the trunk: her mother's workbox, family photographs, two china figurines to keep the fairing company, a little water colour of the house her mother had painted.

The random and unpredictable results of our consequently unchanneled individual views make it increasingly evident, term after term, that the tools for this job are not to be found in the lawyer's -and hence not in the judge's - workbox.

Grania wandered into her spacious sitting room and looked around at its comfortable air of dishevelment, at her paints and workbox, at the nail-studded trunk in which reposed her baby trousseau, hopefully gathered, heartbreakingly unused.

In his book British Film Character Actors, (1982) Terence Pettigrew wrote that 'Sim was best known as a fussy eccentric, and every mannerism in his huge workbox of tricks was sharpened to a fine edge.