Small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables.
1Home: The jewel casket containing the most precious of all jewels-domestichappiness.
2Nevis herself was like a green jewel casket, after the autumn rains.
3Some went into a jewel casket on the dressing table.
4A jewel casket, just as Bernard had described to me.'
5She locked herself in her room and drew from her jewel casket the lamentable letter.
6Third, say nothing about the jewel casket, and display no personal knowledge of the affair.
7What signified the pin-punctured wrapping paper, and the empty jewel casket, in the dead girl's possession?
8Between you and me, I imagine we have a prize there; it looks like a jewel casket!
9Is it becoming a jewel casket?
10The jewel casket beside her was empty, at once suggesting that something had been removed or fallen from it.
12She kept nothing, not even her wedding-ring: she placed it among the rest, in the jewel casket, closed and locked it.
13In front of the window, on two chairs, was the oak coffin lined with satin, looking like some huge jewel casket.
14Soon she came back with a small jewel casket, from which she took a ring and a very dainty lace handkerchief.
15He went to his library desk and took from a drawer the silver jewel casket which he had brought from Central Park.
16He came to lying on the floor next to the open jewel casket with no sense of how much time had passed.
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