saucebox

Example Sentences

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‘I said a clever metalworker and you came back with this boy... this saucebox, who couldn’t do the work anyway, because he ...’ Johnny waited grimly for her to finish her sentence.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

‘Now, you saucebox, you hold that tongue of yours. You’re not to go hanging ’round Cilia—giving her presents—and dear knows how you got the money.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The Marquis had just brought Cornelia into the oratory, and was saying to her: "My pretty saucebox, you are now in the oratory of the Prince of Anjou, brother of our well-beloved King Charles IX."

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

D. I am more dutiful, I hope, than witty; or I should be a fool as well as a saucebox.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

"Out, out with you, you saucebox, you interloper!" she screamed; and she dashed at him and pecked him till he beat a speedy retreat.

From The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various