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"Black box" Quotes from Famous Books

... black box seemed again about to rise when there came a sharp cry from Meka. "This room ...

— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings

... by the window, and, opening a portmanteau, brought a small black box to the bedside. His master passed his hand over it, and drew it ...

— A Monk of Cruta • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... both hands are empty, he points with one finger to the box, where immediately appears a small white china bowl. Holding his empty hand over this bowl, some oranges and apples drop from his empty hand into the bowl. He removes the bowl from the black box, or cave, and hands its contents round to the audience. Receiving the bowl again, he tosses it into the cave, but it never reaches the ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... with a curl over the forehead such as little boys used to wear; his brown eyes were bright and quick as a bird's, and like a bird's, they glanced from side to side, taking in everything. He carried an oblong black box, evidently a violin-case, at which he cast an affectionate look from time to time. As he approached the village, his glances became more and more keenly intelligent. He seemed to be greeting a friend in every tree, in every straggling rose-bush along the roadside; he nodded his head, and ...

— Melody - The Story of a Child • Laura E. Richards

... follows, copied from the folio manuscript paper book, in the file of the treasury office, No. 3700, being a black box of tin containing, under lock and key, ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

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