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...ve accelerated his course: and his hat dripped, and his coat shone, and he soaped his hands, cheerful as an ouzel-cock when the sun is out again. ‘Man... ...a confidential place, highly trusted.’ Skepsey looked up from the hands he soaped: ‘He is a curious mixture; he has true enthusiasm for boxing, he bel... ...rful woman whose profes- sional apparatus was her soft heart and a cake of soap. Skepsey has made his peace with you?’ Victor answered: ‘Yes, yes; I s... ...ce. He had buried his wife, he said: she feared, seeing his posture of the soaping of hands at one shoulder, that he was about to be- wail it; and he ... ...wasted, he’s basted, and the book ‘ll have no sale. I hate satire.’ ‘Rough soap for a thin skin, Victor. Does it hurt our people much?’ ‘Not a bit; do...

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...such queer things to eat. Her cook does the washing and the food tastes of soap. I should hate that, you know.” “Y ou shouldn’t dine with her on wash-... ...e entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds. It was on this phase of the proceedings that Miss Bart en- tered ... ...y up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds. Gathering up her skirts, she drew aside with an impatient gesture... ... Selden’s rooms; and looking down to remonstrate with the dispenser of the soapy flood, she found herself met by a lifted stare which had once before ... ...aunt in town. Even the desolating dulness of New Y ork in October, and the soapy discomforts of Mrs. Peniston’s interior, seemed prefer- able to what ... ...o mention the fact that the latter resented the smell of beeswax and brown soap, and behaved as though she thought a house ought to keep clean of itse...

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...he sought. “If you say such things—” He would dance with rage and hurl the soap about. “The towel!” he would cry, flicking suds from big fingers in ev... ...ts; he was trying desper- ately and belatedly to blow a brain as one blows soap-bubbles on such a mezoroic saurian as I had conjured up, while the clu...

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...ce which has come to my knowledge; which has happened I may say within the soap of my everyday contemplation. Gentlemen, our friend Mr. Whiffers (ever... ...ormed a kind of slab, on which were placed an old cracked basin, ewer, and soap dish, of common yellow earthenware, with a blue flower—’very aggravati...

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...ad by this time opened, indicated a rooted antipathy to the application of soap and water; ‘do you know where I can find Mr. Perker, my good woman?’ ‘... ...I may as well have a rinse,’ replied Mr. Weller, applying plenty of yellow soap to the towel, and rubbing away till his face shone again. ‘How many la...

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...e bush of wax-berried guelder rose, and as good a wash as he could without soap. Then he milked the cows, for happily his own buckets had 37 Yo n g e...

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...caused the latter to vanish as abruptly as when you thrust a finger into a soap bubble. “Halloo, friend!” cried this most unseasonable voice. “Stop a ...

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...erbs. This was the introduction to a great 115 George Eliot ceremony with soap and water, from which Baby came out in new beauty, and sat on Dolly’s ...

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... as fresh sprung herbs. This was the introduction to a great ceremony with soap and water, from which Baby came out in new beauty, and sat on Dolly’s ...

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...hem, and at once dropped them. “Do you see? I wash them with Greek scented soap.... Sniff! Oh, but don’t kiss them.... I did not do it for that.... Wh...

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...de of the court. There were three basin-stands, and a few crumpled towels and pieces of wet soap, white and slippery like fish; nor should I forget a ...

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...term for a sore, artifi- cially created. To make a clime, the operator made a paste or poultice of unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, and ...

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... a bedroom in the upper part of the house. Here he set before me water and soap, and a comb; and laid out some clothes that belonged to his son; and h...

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...g for wealth and hon ors, or whatever he might be doing, to vanish like a soap bubble, and be never more seen of his fellows; and so accus tomed wer...

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...t the village by the lagoon, and he would give in exchange for it rice and soap and tinned meat and a little money . Sometimes there would be a feast ...

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...ws. I lay down in my clothes, all but my coat, but I took a razor and some soap ashore. ‘Sunday was spent in going about to different neighbouring set... ...aterproof sheet, with my silk gown, Prayer-book, brush and comb, razor and soap, a clean tie, and a couple of sea biscuits. Then at about 3 P .M. off ... ...t: plates, cups, saucers, knives, forks, spoons, tubs, saucepans, kettles, soap, towels, domestic things for wash- ing, ironing, &c. ‘The common prese...

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... dear , if I’d had the naming of you I should have called you Maria of the Soapsuds. You’re always torturing these wretched brats with soap.” “You go ... ...f children came in. They were clean and tidy , now. their faces shone with soap, and their hair was plastered down; they were going to Sunday school u... ...other room in which were two baths, discoloured, the woodwork stained with soap; and in them were dark rings at vari- ous intervals which indicated th...

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...passing and point- ing. ‘No, king; that too dear,’ returns the trader. ‘I think I like him,’ says the king. This was a bowl of gold-fish. On another o...

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...d out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impal pable beauty of my soap bubble was broken by the rude con tact of some actual circumstance. T...

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...er and fifty cartridges from an aban- doned pawnbroker’s. He also got some soap and had his first real wash for thirteen months in a stream outside th...