"Do they imagine that, because they have been managers of the Opera, we are going to let them have
a box for an indefinite period?"
"The stimulus (object) to which the child often responds,
a box, e.g.
That evening the Rostovs went to the Opera, for which Marya Dmitrievna had taken
a box.
It would be difficult to suppose that there ever was
a box which was opened and shut so many times within four-and-twenty hours, as that which contained his wardrobe and necessaries; and certainly there never was one which to two small eyes presented such a mine of clothing, as this mighty chest with its three shirts and proportionate allowance of stockings and pocket-handkerchiefs, disclosed to the astonished vision of little Jacob.
"Surely," said Albert, as the door of
a box on the first circle opened, "that must be the Countess G
While he was inwardly praying (he always prayed when he was much frightened)-- "Oh, save me this once, and I'll never get into danger again!"--he was thrusting his hand into his pocket in search of
a box of yellow lozenges, which he had brought with him from Brigford among other delicacies of the same portable kind, as a means of conciliating proud beauty, and more particularly the beauty of Miss Sarah Lunn.