saucebox

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

  Clarissa Harlowe

• ““Look at her Laura-ship!” said a saucebox to her partner.”

  The Getting of Wisdom

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

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

• “To-day I have been visiting, which I had long neglected; and I dined with Mrs. Barton alone; and sauntered at the Coffee-house till past eight, and have been busy till eleven, and now I'll answer your letter, saucebox.”

  The Journal to Stella

• “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.”

  The Journal to Stella

• “The calabash is left in the sun, and when the sauce dries up, water is poured on the dry ingredients, a perpetual saucebox.”

  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

• “After all, I'm not sure but Nature's biggest miracle has been performed in the saucebox.”

  A Bookful of Girls

• “The saucebox! and she earning the mighty wage of two-fifty per week.”

  Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

• “I wish it were at the bottom!" replied saucebox, as loud as she could bawl, and pointing to the pedestals.”

  Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney

• “You're an insolent saucebox," says Jemmy; "you've learned that at your fine school.”

  Burlesques

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