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Examples
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Sounded like a typical analog cheese-box - in other words, great.
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What space and elbow-room can be found for quarter-deck dignity in the cramped lookout of the Monitor, or even in the twenty-feet diameter of her cheese-box?
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Not being able to damage the stranger with their British cannon, the rebel tried the effect of its powerful ram; but the "cheese-box" divining its intentions, nimbly got out of harm's way.
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It might have been described as a soap-box with a cheese-box on top of it; and these homely and familiar articles were perhaps not altogether out of keeping with the character of the humblest great man who ever lived.
The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923
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The form of the Monitor is too well known to need description -- "a cheese-box on a raft," the name given her in derision, describes her as well as anything.
American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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Several years ago a friend took a cheese-box, filled it with sharp sand to the brim, supported it in a tub of water so that the lower half-inch of the box was immersed.
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The only attention given the box was to keep the water high enough in the tub to touch the bottom of the cheese-box.
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When the unwieldy rebel turtleback, with her slow, awkward movement, tried to ram the pointed raft that carried the cheese-box, the little vessel, obedient to her rudder, easily glided out of the line of direct impact.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904
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This was Ericsson's “cheese-box on a raft,” named by him the
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904
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This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed “a cheese-box on a raft,” and the designation was not at all inapt.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904
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