On impulse he slashed at a tea box or two in the darkness.

Sit at a table, an up-ended tea box, or on cushions around a small, low pedestal.

Then he discovered a door, to the right, partly obscured by piles of tea boxes.

The windows grew dustier; the piles of tea boxes were undisturbed.

Standing all day; guarding the empty tea boxes; always anxious and eagerly awaiting a customer.

However, after a glance at the Chinaman, the stranger went on through the shop and disappeared behind the tea boxes in the rear.

A small swatch of original wallpaper, the lining from tea boxes, remains.

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I would be glad to trust you, gentlemen; but remember, time passes slowly within the confines of a tea box.

After I went into my shop at dawn, men came to take away a shipment of tea boxes.