work boots
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Leather was used with good effect, too, for the ornamentation of workboxes, red morocco being much favoured in England early in the nineteenth century.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
They were permitted to relieve the tedium of their confinement by manufacturing and selling toys; workboxes, brooches, and carved work of different kinds.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel
Before each tree was displayed a quantity of toys, gloves, pocket-handkerchiefs, workboxes, books, and various articles—presents made to the owner of the tree.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry
They consisted of workboxes, paints, tops, knives, drums, books, blotters, aprons, pencils, etc.
From The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales by Hatton, Bessie
There were richly bound Bibles and church-services, and Russia leather writing-cases, and inlaid tea-caddies, and china stands and book-slides, and satin-lined workboxes bristling with cutlery, and photograph frames and tea-sets—in fact, there was everything.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary
