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Definition of Soapboxes
1. soapbox [v] - See also: soapbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soapboxes
Literary usage of Soapboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (1998)
"Slowly the hall emptied of people and the men on soapboxes left. ... Our minds
are so often like this dreamer's hall, full of men on soapboxes bombarding ..."
2. The Workers: An Experiment in Reality by Walter Augustus Wyckoff (1898)
"... limped from his kennel among some old soapboxes and barked a feeble protest
against my approach, and a few fowls were squatting in the dust in the shade ..."
3. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1893)
"Nor is it at all probable that the cheapness with which boot-boxes, soapboxes,
&c., might be made abroad would compensate for the cost of carriage. ..."
4. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"I secured a half-dozen wooden boxes about the size of common soapboxes and had
them sawed so that they were each four inches deep. These boxes were so small ..."
5. The Home Missionary by American Home Missionary Society, Congregational Home Missionary Society (1895)
"So far, chairs made of boards, with soapboxes for wash-stands, and other things
to correspond, have had to do service this first year. ..."
6. The Staffordshire Potter by Harold Owen (1901)
"Sponge-bowls have been taken to the jigger, and cost 50 per cent less to make;
soapboxes for which the hollow-ware presser received 1s. ..."
7. The Indian Forester (1894)
"soapboxes are urgently wanted for one of the leading soap manufactories here.
One has just imported 43000 boxes at from 2 to 5 annas apiece. ..."
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