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Definition of Safes

1. safe [n] - See also: safe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safes

Literary usage of Safes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett (1870)
"The majority of the so-called "safes" in use at the time of the great fire in New ... The Wilder safes proved a protection against fires which destroyed the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"That the assignment was a legal and valid instrument, and operated to transfer the property in the safes to the assignees. 3. ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1852)
"Sm:—I beg leave to refer to an article published by you some time ngo under the caption, " Fian PROOF safes—TUE SALAMANDER"—and to call the attention of ..."

4. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"safes for the storage and protection of valuables may be divided into three ... safes both fire- and burglar-proof. The last are usually fire-proof safes ..."

5. Fire Prevention and Fire Protection as Applied to Building Construction: A by Joseph Kendall Freitag (1912)
"Fireproof safes, so called, are constructed of two distinct types — those ... The following information on the subject of portable safes was outlined by a ..."

6. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"safes, Steel. safes, Toy. Safe Alarms. Safe-Deposit Boxes. ... Safe Iron, Welded. Safe Locks. Safe Plates. Safe Steel. safes and ..."

7. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... and their Talents — Misspent Years —A Startling Statement about safes — The Race between Burglars and Safe- builders — How safes are Opened — Mysteries ..."

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