The number of heavy trunks, and parcels, and bandboxes belonging to my lady; and the solicitude, exhibited about some humble, odd-looking box, by my lady's maid; the cushions piled in the carriage to make a soft seat still softer, and to prevent the dreaded possibility of a jolt; the smelling-bottles, the cordials, the baskets of biscuit and fruit; the new publications; all provided to guard against hunger, fatigue, or ennui; the led horses, to vary the mode of travelling; and all this preparation and parade to move, perhaps, some very good-for-nothing personage about a little space of earth!
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
On each side of this glass were two round bandboxes of blue paper, containing two poke bonnets, as common then as now.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
The driver appeared as much accustomed to carrying canoes in this way as bandboxes.
"Canoeing in the wilderness"
Henry David Thoreau