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1. In Vinculis: Or, The Prisoner of War, Being the Experience of a Rebel in Two by Anthony M. Keiley (1866)
"Cracker-box houses.—A prison adventure.—Prison ingenuity.—The washerwomen. ...
Top-boots and a cracker-box house filled the measure of any genuine Point ..."
2. The American Girl's Home Book of Work and Play by Helen Campbell (1902)
"112 — TIN BISCUIT OR CRACKER Box. leather firmly on. If you prefer it, the leather
may be pasted on the tin, and the pattern worked on it while there. ..."
3. Household Physics by Alfred Munson Butler (1919)
"Ships float even though made of steel; a tin cracker box, if placed carefully
... The explanation of this is that while the cracker box is floating upon the ..."
4. Outing (1893)
"Afterward a kitchen table was built against a large rock ; the stove was mounted
on a cracker-box and the pipe wired to the branches of a pine tree. ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... and behind it commenced digging a small pit After digging enough earth to give
protection, an empty cracker-box was dragged up from the lines by means ..."
6. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"He particularly remembered an old fellow who used to sit upon a cracker box in
front of the store and feign to despise such exhibitions. ..."
7. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"That's it there in his cracker-box. Its name is 'The Young Ladies' Friend'."
"Just hand it over to me now, along with my others. ..."
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