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  • "Never you mind, sauce-box!" giggles she, tossing her head, so I kept mum till she turned to look at me, and then I frowned and asked, quite hard:

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • But what have I done, Mrs. Jervis? said I: If I have been a sauce-box, and a bold-face, and a pert, and a creature, as he calls me, have I not had reason?

    Pamela 2006

  • Why, sauce-box, says he, did not my good mother desire me to take care of you?

    Pamela 2006

  • And so I am to be exposed, am I, said he, in my own house, and out of my house, to the whole world, by such a sauce-box as you?

    Pamela 2006

  • "Never you mind, sauce-box!" giggles she, tossing her head, so I kept mum till she turned to look at me, and then I frowned and asked, quite hard:

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • "Never you mind, sauce-box!" giggles she, tossing her head, so I kept mum till she turned to look at me, and then I frowned and asked, quite hard:

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • You are a sauce-box, said she, shaking him by the hand; -- but don't go, my Lord, _too far_ with Miss Warley, nodding and smiling on him at the same time.

    Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning

  • "Reminds me of little ` sauce-box '" (my sister), "this do," he murmured gleefully, as he followed his fair companion below.

    For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

  • You can afford to build a craft such as I have described, and fit her out for the v'y'ge, and still leave money enough at home to keep sauce-box here, "(indicating Ada, who was to him as the apple of his eye)" comfortable and happy like till we come back.

    For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

  • The Vidame gallantly gave his arm to Misè Fougueiroun; I followed with her first officer -- a sauce-box named Mouneto, so plumply provoking and charming in her Arlesian dress that I will not say what did or did not happen in the darkness as we passed the well!

    The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

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