vanity box

Example Sentences

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When she had shut the vanity box with a sharp snap, she pressed the electric bell, and waited with her head bowed.

From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone

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.

Mr. Peavey had sent a magnificent toilet set, Harrigan Blood a vanity box in gold which she embraced in her delight, Blainey a brooch which had solid convertible qualities; scarf-pins and silverware abounded.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

Loring was helping Sammy to adjust his burdens; and Winnie, with the aid of the mirror in her vanity box, was trying the effect of violets close to her eyes.

From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by Chester, George Randolph

But hastily she rubbed her little nose with powder from a vanity box.

From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)