soap-boiler

I have made a soap-boiler costive; it was my masterpiece.

The Duchess of Malfi 2007

“The son of a confounded millionaire soap-boiler,” commented Mr. Blunt through his clenched teeth.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

“The auld soap-boiler,” said Sir Mungo; “it will need some of his suds to scour the blot out of the Glenvarloch shield — I have heard that estate was no great things.”

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

His life was a series of distracted compromises between the proprietor of the paper (and of him), who was a senile soap-boiler with three ineradicable mistakes in his mind, and the very able staff he had collected to run the paper; some of whom were brilliant and experienced men and (what was even worse) sincere enthusiasts for the political policy of the paper.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

His life was a series of distracted compromises between the proprietor of the paper (and of him), who was a senile soap-boiler with three ineradicable mistakes in his mind, and the very able staff he had collected to run the paper; some of whom were brilliant and experienced men and (what was even worse) sincere enthusiasts for the political policy of the paper.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The bones are selected with care, and sold to the soap-boiler.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Various

We are assured by a veteran soap-boiler who has experimented much in this direction that it is impossible to recover a marketable article of glycerine from the lees of soap in which resin is an ingredient.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

This method of making soap is much easier than to make a lye of your ashes, while it is as cheap, if you sell your ashes to the soap-boiler.

The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner Anonymous

Like the retired soap-boiler who always looked in on melting-days Lord

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various

When he was fit for a trade, his friends agreed to put him out, and not thinking they should find a master good enough for him in a country place, they sent him to Dublin, and bound him to a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler in St. Thomas's

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward