0 in the UK, the box on a table in the House of Commons that important politicians stand next to when they are formally speaking to the Members of Parliament --
In one hand he carried an iron dispatch box, and in the other a heavy pistol.
At last, after he had covertly inspected all the bags, bundles and dispatch boxes, he disappeared in the surrounding gloom and did not reappear at all.
Artillery, cattle, supplies, dispatch boxes,—all were abandoned.
