1798. Poetry of Anti-jacobin, xxii. 116 [ed. 1801]. Coal-black is my KNOWLEDGE-BOX.
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 17. Found his KNOWLEDGE-BOX always the first thing.
1821. W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, iii. 1. Jerry. Doctor! I touch’d your KNOWLEDGE BOX there, I think.
1840. C. BRONTË, in GASKELL’Ss Life, ch. ix. The wind … has produced the same effects on the contents of my KNOWLEDGE-BOX that a quaigh of usquebaugh does upon those of most other bipeds.
1868. M. E. BRADDON, The Trail of the Serpent, Bk. VI. iii. The gentlemen of the Prize ring were prepared to fight as long as they had a bunch of fives to rattle upon the KNOWLEDGE-BOX of the foe.
