Holding a needle in the flame, he dipped it, when red-hot, into an old cocoa tin, and withdrew it with a bead of opium adhering to the end.

She readily agrees to take in the girl made pregnant by his son, and he gets her, using some of the last of his money from the cocoa tin.

"Nora, get the cocoa tin, a bag of sugar, and the tinned milk," said Peggy.

They have a cocoa tin containing money set aside for Absalom's education at a school called St. Chad's.

Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about, except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters.

One tip for beating the blackout was to fix a cocoa tin over a light to give a narrow beam - enough to read by.

Why spend a week's wages on a kite, a lot more on the line(s) then insult the lot by wrapping those lines around an old cocoa tin - or worse, around the handle in a bulky bundle?

Gulls' hard-wired instincts make them reach over and roll back not just their own stray eggs, but also wooden cylinders and cocoa tins.

Around 1900, La Belle Chocolatière served as inspiration for the commercial illustration of the "nurse" that appeared on Droste's cocoa tins.