Chest (furniture) that women use to store dower items, including linens and baby clothes.
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Examples for "hope chest "
Examples for "hope chest "
1 She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights.
2 He gave her a cedar hope chest , to hold their future.
3 Mayes said no one had ever opened his great-grandmother's hope chest .
4 Even Fiona's, although she refuses to have a real hope chest .
5 Every girl has a right to buy for a hope chest .
1 As big as my sister's dowry chest .
1 As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.
1 On 27 minutes everything clicked and some sumptuous passing and movement on the edge of the Glory box resulted in Sergio Cirio beating Ante Covic.
1 In great expectancy, she lifted the heavy lid of the cedar chest .
2 At the back and near the right stands the great cedar chest .
3 In a corner of the room is a cedar chest containing hand-woven linen.
4 It's put away in the cedar chest in the attic-Marywill know where.
5 The bedding's in the cedar chest , and the lamps are filled.
6 Again she saw the cedar chest with its pathetic wedding garments.
7 There were trunks in one corner, a great many, and a cedar chest .
8 Vida opened the cedar chest , pulling out the sleek fur cloak.
9 The shells were in the bottom drawer of the cedar chest .
10 Warm underwear in the cedar chest in the spare room when you need it.
11 We found all those costumes up in the garret in the old cedar chest .
12 Crawling along the dirty, sooty, begrimed floor, he soon located the old cedar chest .
13 There was little to find- anewdiary, the pages uncut, and an empty cedar chest .
14 A large cedar chest , curiously inlaid and provided with silver handles, first attracted her attention.
15 Everything there in the cedar chest he hates.
16 Griselda Grigsby had tossed them carelessly into the cedar chest and gone out to forget them.
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