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Definition of Tinderboxes
1. tinderbox [n] - See also: tinderbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinderboxes
Literary usage of Tinderboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"A large assortment of PRIMITIVE tinderboxes, for which the upstart Con- greve
will be found no Match. Flint and Steel Guns, and Pistols, for Fowling and ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"A week ago at the Bitterns, Monday at the tinderboxes, and last night down-stairs,
my love, with my legs stretched under our own mahogany. MRS. ..."
3. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift (1897)
"Who's silly now ? rogues and lasses, tinderboxes and buzzards. O Lord, I am in
a high vein of silliness ; methought I was speaking to dearest little MD face ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter oía seller of tinderboxes. B.
Jon.t Barí. Fair, ii. 1. And last, the dog-killers great gaines hounds. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. B.
Jon., Saft. Fair, ii. 1. ..."
6. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. Б.
Jon., Sari. Fair, ii. 1. And last, the dog-killers great gaines hounds. ..."
7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"A large assortment of PRIMITIVE tinderboxes, for which the upstart Con- greve
will be found no Match. Flint and Steel Guns, and Pistols, for Fowling and ..."
8. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"A week ago at the Bitterns, Monday at the tinderboxes, and last night down-stairs,
my love, with my legs stretched under our own mahogany. MRS. ..."
9. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift (1897)
"Who's silly now ? rogues and lasses, tinderboxes and buzzards. O Lord, I am in
a high vein of silliness ; methought I was speaking to dearest little MD face ..."
10. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter oía seller of tinderboxes. B.
Jon.t Barí. Fair, ii. 1. And last, the dog-killers great gaines hounds. ..."
11. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. B.
Jon., Saft. Fair, ii. 1. ..."
12. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. Б.
Jon., Sari. Fair, ii. 1. And last, the dog-killers great gaines hounds. ..."
13. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"A large assortment of PRIMITIVE tinderboxes, for which the upstart Con- greve
will be found no Match. Flint and Steel Guns, and Pistols, for Fowling and ..."
14. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"A week ago at the Bitterns, Monday at the tinderboxes, and last night down-stairs,
my love, with my legs stretched under our own mahogany. MRS. ..."
15. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift (1897)
"Who's silly now ? rogues and lasses, tinderboxes and buzzards. O Lord, I am in
a high vein of silliness ; methought I was speaking to dearest little MD face ..."
16. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter oía seller of tinderboxes. B.
Jon.t Barí. Fair, ii. 1. And last, the dog-killers great gaines hounds. ..."
17. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. B.
Jon., Saft. Fair, ii. 1. ..."
18. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"... in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. Б.
Jon., Sari. Fair, ii. 1. And last, the dog-killers great gaines hounds. ..."
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