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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
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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
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Why, sauce-box, says he, did not my good mother desire me to take care of you?
Pamela 2006
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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
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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:
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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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:
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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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
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"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
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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
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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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