sweat box

Example Sentences

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He put poor old Alf Reesling through the "sweat box" time and again, and worthless Tom Folly had many an unhappy night, wondering why the marshal was shadowing him so persistently.

From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by McCutcheon, George Barr

I had an hour of solid comfort to-day, now I'm in the sweat box again.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

Me back to the sweat box at eight per when I'm gettin' fourteen for this?

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell

It was the sense of the meeting that a "sweat box" should be installed under Mr. Crow's supervision, and that the marshal's salary should be increased fifty dollars a year.

From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by McCutcheon, George Barr

When she was brought into what the sensational newspapers would call the "sweat box" it was clear that she was in a state of abject terror.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)