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

I had your letter this night, as told you just and no more in my last; for this must be taken up in answering yours, saucebox.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

“No, saucebox, I don’t; but I mean to turn my knife-grinder’s wheel into a wheel of fortune; and with your help I will do so.”

From The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook by Marryat, Frederick

"There is only one voice of fault-finding and regret over this incredible weakness of Herr Dernburg, for----" "What do you know about it, saucebox?" continued the doctor.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)