Landon Ethel Churchill|volume=I|page=24|passage=... in the very hall through which a coffin had late passed, were heard the jingling of glasses and the rattle of the dice-box.
Thackeray Barry Lyndon|chapter=VIII|page=113|passage=For there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.
Dickens David Copperfield|page=155|passage=I was greatly elated by these orders; but my heart smote me for my selfishness, when I witnessed their effect on Mr. Dick, who was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.
