"Packing case" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his same queer smile. Bell worked frantically. He saw Ortiz coming back, pausing to light a cigarette, and taking up a hatchet, with which he attacked a packing case. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... If you want to heave over an empty packing case or something, I could waste a few rounds seeing if I could come ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... just by his heroic ability to transform the commonest things into tools for his craft. Much of his best and subtlest work has been clacked out on a typewriter standing on an upturned packing box. (When the American Magazine published a picture of him at work on his packing case the supply man of the Sun got worried, and gave him a regular desk.) Newspaper men are a hardy race. Who but a man inured to the squalour of a newspaper office would dream of a cockroach as a hero? Archy was born in the old Sun building, ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... the said spout is turned with the right position, which position is that best adapted for pouring from the can into another vessel, and in which the said spout projects through a slot in the side of the packing case in closing it, the said case being provided with an opening and a door for closing the same adapted ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... old bed, with tapestry hangings. The windows opened to the floor; but by great good fortune the lower part of the shutters had been closed, and this concealed him from the neighbours. Here, then, Markheim drew in a packing case before the cabinet, and began to search among the keys. It was a long business, for there were many; and it was irksome, besides; for, after all, there might be nothing in the cabinet, and time was on the wing. But ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson |
