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Definition of Strongboxes
1. strongbox [n] - See also: strongbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strongboxes
Literary usage of Strongboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chartist Movement by Mark Hovell (1918)
"... manager of the Bank of England branch feared for his strongboxes.3 A letter
from Fussell to Brown, dated May 7, describes the excitement in Birmingham. ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1840)
"Gold buried in the earth, or deposited in strongboxes, is not currency. Its owner
wants the will to use it. Whenever there is an increase in the tendency ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"... from the crypto domestica, the cabinets and strongboxes, the nooks and crannies,
of their own country, might well appear strange and astonishing. ..."
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