sweat-box

When we weren't arguing, we'd snuggle under our effective sweat-box comforter, fraying from so many happy and sad years of sex and sweat and cat dander.

Shrine Meg Pokrass 2011

Piper Boles looked bleakly back over his hungry evening with its single martini and said he'd had a session in the sweat-box that morning.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

But somehow they fixed me up and after near a year in hospital they transferred me to a sweat-box jail in Baja.

The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007

Piper Boles looked bleakly back over his hungry evening with its single martini and said he'd had a session in the sweat-box that morning.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

In the center of a room only 18 feet by 20, was an open can, the reeking cesspool of this dungeon in which sat a sick Negro convict confined in this dark sweat-box, perishing.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

Then after a few days longer in the sun, the fruit goes to the sweat-box, a hundred pounds to the box, and is placed in a room in the packing house, where it lies about ten days.

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

Back to pulleys again and the crowded sweat-box of the copy room and twenty-five dollars a week with the raise gone glimmering now --

Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

I can sympathize now with the recalcitrant convict who is punished by being sent to the sweat-box.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

In the sweat-box which had been allotted to me, called by courtesy a cabin, a large gray ship's rat gnawed industriously at my suit-case in an endeavor to ascertain what it contained; insects that shall be nameless disported themselves upon the dubious-looking blanket which formed the only covering of the bed; cockroaches of incredible size used the wash-basin as a public swimming-pool.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

North, and then I got into my flying sweat-box and headed South.

A Martian Odyssey Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918