Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorobans
Literary usage of Sorobans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon (1893)
"... she hears continued the busy hum of voices, the clattering of sorobans, the
thumping of the bare feet of the heavily laden boys, and the loud shouts of ..."
2. Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon (1902)
"... and as she skips into the jinrikisha and is whirled away, she hears continued
the busy hum of voices, the clattering of sorobans, the thumping of the ..."
3. Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon (1891)
"... she hears continued the busy hum of voices, the clattering of sorobans, the
thumping of the bare feet of the heavily laden boys, and the loud shouts of ..."
4. Half-hours in Japan by Herbert Moore (1900)
"When you go into the shops presently, you will see sorobans in every one : and
when you have bought your thirty-two shaku of crepe at 47 sen a shaku, ..."
5. Jinrikisha Days in Japan by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1900)
"Here and there salesmen and accountants, the book-keepers being also cashiers,
sit at low desks, where they keep their sorobans, money, and curious ledgers. ..."
6. Jinrikisha Days in Japan by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1891)
"Here and there salesmen and accountants, the book-keepers being also cashiers,
sit at low desks, where they keep their sorobans, money, and curious ledgers. ..."
7. The World: Round it and Over it: Being Letters Written by the Author from by Chester Glass (1881)
"They are all kept by yellow-faced Celestials, who sit behind their counters and
seem to be always calculating on their sorobans. They don't use figures in ..."
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