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...at moment having his feet rubbed with a soft brush lath- ered with English soap. “Have I not the most devoted attachment to you,” replied Paul de Mane...

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...o dress for Sunday school. Mary gave him a tin basin of water and a piece of soap, and he went outside the door and set the basin on a little bench th... ...tside the door and set the basin on a little bench there; then he dipped the soap in the water and laid it down; turned up his sleeves; poured out the...

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...y be- fore he came to the house, and to wash his hands with good cleansing soap; not to swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of s... ...gone too far, and ran to him, seized him just as he was, all lathered with soap-suds, and kissed him tenderly. “Dear Xavier, don’t be vexed,” she said... ... wife of Mohammed?” She began to laugh; and Rabourdin laughed too, for the soapsuds were clinging to Celestine’s lips, and her voice had the tones of ...

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...es-peg on the door, a razor and some dirty scraps of paper, and a piece of soap that had hardened through 56 The Food of the Gods years of disuse int... ...owed in the same slow development by a second universal solicitude: BEAUTY SOAP . Not, you remark, mere cleansing chemicals, but something, as they sa...

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...-tips, steel knives, tin kettles that cooked food much better than the old soap-stone affairs, flint and steel, and even matches, as well as coloured ... ...howled and howled again, and waked to howl hungrily. One could tell by the soap-stone lamps in the huts that famine was near. In good seasons, when bl...

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...skirting-board, serene. On the mantlepiece were white lustres, and a small soap- stone Buddha from China, grey, impassive, locked in his re- nunciatio... .... He watched her hair, which at the back was al- most of the colour of the soapstone idol, take the candlelight into its vigorous freedom in front and... ...ther. She carefully sponged her cheeks, her pursed-up mouth, and her neck, soaping her hair, but not her ears. Then, very de- liberately, she squeezed... ...de- liberately, she squeezed out the sponge and proceeded to wipe away the soap. For some reason or other she glanced round. Her startled eyes met his...

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...th, we smartened Peepy up a little with the assistance of a few pins, some soap and water, and a hair brush, and went out, bending our steps towards N... ...y sort of apron. Her fingers were white and wrinkled with washing, and the soap suds were yet smoking which she wiped off her arms. But for this, she ... ...says. “Ah! It’s a good room! Been whitewashed. Been cleaned down with soft soap and soda. Hi! It’s worth twice the rent, letting alone my company when... ...ttle girl in a rough apron and a large bonnet, with her hands covered with soap and water and a scrubbing brush in one of them, appears, and curtsys. ... ...ed, to the pump in the little yard and anon comes back shining with yellow soap, friction, drifting rain, and exceed ingly cold water. As he rubs him... ...d. In the morning it looked, by the aid of a few flowers and a quantity of soap and water and a little arrangement, quite gay. The plain breakfast mad...

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...ady, with her sleeves rolled up to her shoulders, and her arms frothy with soap- suds and smoking with hot water, replied to the summons with startlin... ... ten and five, slippers, pocket-books, sponges, dogs’ collars, and Windsor soap; and sometimes a pointer or an oil-painting. The pointer always came t... ... chair, on a very small desolate island, lying about midway in an ocean of soap and water. The Captain’s windows had been cleaned, the walls had been ... ...cleaned, and everything the stove excepted, was wet, and shining with soft soap and sand: the smell of which dry-saltery impregnated the air. In the m... ...tle(for the island was not large enough for three), beamed on her from the soap and water like a new description of T riton. ‘You are amazed to see us...

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...gs were affixed to the wall over the washstand. There was a smell of cheap soap and of ancient hair-oil in the air. “That’s a single bed,” said Trina,... ...fect, her head on one side. She polished the gold pieces with a mixture of soap and ashes until they shone, wiping them carefully on her apron. Or, ag... ...g her beautiful gold pieces that she had been at such pains to polish with soap and ashes. The thought filled her with an unspeakable anguish. She wou... ...om. She was down on her hands and knees in the midst of a steaming muck of soapy water. On her feet were a pair of man’s shoes fastened with buckles; ...

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.... “Leather? I don’t like that. Wash-tubs are better. I prefer the smell of soap. I hope at least they made your fortune.” She rattled this off with th... ... seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap—strong- smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me th...

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...t buildings down a piece the other side; ash hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of wat... ...as goose milk. Why, Huck, it wouldn’t make no more talk than breaking into a soap factory.” I never said nothing, because I warn’t expecting nothing d... ... The door to it was at the south end, and was padlocked. Tom he went to the soap kettle and searched around, and fetched back the iron thing they li...

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...boast, ‘all the way up.’ The bell-lamp in the passage looked as clear as a soap-bubble; you could see yourself in all the tables, and French-polish yo... ... element, bustling about, talking incessantly, and distributing towels and soap, like a head nurse in a hospital. The house was not restored to its us...

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...ith two staring sim- pering portraits of herself and her husband, clean as soap could make it, but smelling like a long closed box. She went to a cupb... ...it up with a considerable trouble more than half full, and a bit of yellow soap and clean towel were likewise vouchsafed to her. The wash—perhaps beca...

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...ing up to the arm-pits, she exhaled the anguish of the poor in a breath of soap-suds and rum, in the uproar of scrubbing, in the clatter of tin pails.... ...dacious, miserably authenticated by the hor- rible breath of cheap rum and soap-suds. She scrubbed hard, snuffling all the time, and talking volubly. ...

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... takes little to make these cherubs laugh; the fall of a brush, a piece of soap slipping from the hand, and what merry shouts! And if our triumphs are... ...s at last concluded, and they stand, spotless and shining, amid a chaos of soap, sponges, combs, basins, blotting-paper, flannel, and all the nameless...

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...ng—as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings ... ...y sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles. There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at D...

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... to bring Ada; tak- ing off her gloves, with her smooth hands, redolent of soap a la guimauve, she showed how and where flounces were worn and ruches ...

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...Lincoln’s oak tree. For this purpose he ordered it to be well scoured with soap and sand and polished with wax, and then provided it with a substantia...

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... vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. 23 How ca...

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...e most important thing was, he suspected my intentions; my 128 Rudin last soap-bubble struck on him as on a spike, and burst. The inspector, whom I h...