vanity box
Example Sentences
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Quite cheerfully Winnie gave Sammy her fan, her parasol, her vanity box, her novel, her box of chocolates and her hat, stuffed a handkerchief in his pocket and said: "Come on, Sammy; I'm ready."
From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by Chester, George Randolph
Mary Louise listened politely and Josie made her escape with her suitcase without purchasing the vanity box.
From Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Sampson, Emma Speed
As a final tribute to that feminine instinct which knows no race she drew from some cunningly devised hiding place a small, cheap "vanity box," and proceeded very gravely to powder her nose.
From The Heritage of the Sioux by Bower, B. M.
"See, it's missing!" she cried, raising the gold mesh purse with its dangling vanity box.
From I Spy by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
But hastily she rubbed her little nose with powder from a vanity box.
From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
