vanity box
Example Sentences
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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.
"I haven't noticed any effect yet," she said, as she took out a vanity box, and surreptitiously used her chamois, leaving a more brilliant tint on her face.
From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Hope, Laura Lee
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
"See, it's missing!" she cried, raising the gold mesh purse with its dangling vanity box.
From I Spy by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
Then she opened a gold vanity box suspended from her wrist by a chain, and looked at herself in the small mirror it contained.
From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone
