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...iest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, cheese, dried fish, soap, varnish, paraffin and other solids and fluids that she came to know perfectly by their smells without consenting to know them by their names....

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...s cast, the duskiest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, chee...

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...r. Eglantine, the celebrated perruquier and perfumer of Bond Street, whose soaps, ra- zors, and patent ventilating scalps are know throughout Eu- rope... ...s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levison, have their respect... ...ted here. Among them, on the entresol (between the splendid saloons of the Soap Company on the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting ... ...the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western B... ...onstant visitor at that gentleman’s emporium; dealing with him largely for soaps and articles of perfumery, which he had at an exceedingly low rate. I... ...tine’s knowledge of his pro- fession amounts to genius. He sells a cake of soap for seven shillings, for which another man would not get a shilling, a... ... Eglantine’s. Fine business that; finest in London. Five-shilling cakes of soap, my dear boy. I can’t wash with such. Thousands a year that man has ma... ... Fleet, who invented the Panama swindle, the Pontine Marshes’ swindle, the Soap swindle— how are you off for soap now, Mr. W-lk-r?)—the Ravenswing, we...

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...hreaten its life with a railway share; You may charm it with smiles and soap—’ “ (“That’s exactly the method,” the Bellman bold In a hasty p... ... To threaten its life with a railway share; To charm it with smiles and soap! “For the Snark’s a peculiar creature, that won’t Be caught in ... ...reatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan For making a sepa... ...reatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain That the Beaver’s ... ...reatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new It was matter f... ...reatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. They shuddered to think that the chase might fail, And the Bea...

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...town.” Also, al fresco in the streets there stood tables heaped with nuts, soap, and ginger- bread (the latter but little distinguishable from the soa... ...mmonly seen. That is to say, after a brief post-grandial nap he called for soap and water, and spent a considerable period in the task of scrubbing hi... ... gratify their curiosity? To begin with, the centre of the box contained a soap-dish, with, disposed around it, six or seven compartments for razors. ... ... you would enter only after 192 Dead Souls you had bought a cheap cake of soap and indulged in a two hours’ wash. Also, at the entrance there was pos... ...a habit of washing with a sponge dipped in eau-de-Cologne, and invested in soaps of the most ex- pensive quality, in order to communicate to his skin ... ...quently of all had his thoughts turned towards a certain quality of French soap which imparted a peculiar whiteness to the skin and a peerless freshne... ... tchinovniks of the Cus- toms also to set aside for him a few cakes of the soap which he had found so excellent for the freshness of the cheeks. Thus ... ...d, and in her place was standing a bewhiskered butler, armed with a silver soap-dish and a hand-basin. “Do you mind if I wash in your presence?” asked... ...Upon that the General fell to scrubbing himself—inci- dentally, to sending soapsuds flying in every direction. Meanwhile he seemed so favourably dispo...

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.... The chemist had no boxes of ginger beer powders, no beautifying sea side soaps and washes, no attractive scents; nothing but his great goggle eyed ... ...ook strangely on the truckle beds. The sight of whitewash and the smell of soap—two things we seem by this time to have parted from in infancy—make th... ...s me to wash on a freemason’s apron without the trimming: when I asked for soap, gives me a stony hearted something white, with no more lather in it t... ...indrical press, upon a leaf of thin paper, streaming from a plunge bath of soap and water? Wasn’t the paper impression daintily spread, by a light fin...

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...s the festal color, and more especially in Palestine, where the indigenous soaps, and other cleaning materials, gave them peculiar advantages for adop... ... there never had been a richer. And thus collapses the whole fable, like a soap-bubble punctured by a surgeon’s probe. II. Yet even this specimen of P... ...a pig (but in this instance a wild boar of the forest) whose tail has been soaped. (See Lord Clarendon, not his History but his Life.) What the Birmin...

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...- man from Grasse, with whom he began, on equal shares, the manufacture of soaps, essences, and eau-de-cologne. His connection with this man lasted on... ...xplained the nature of the skin and the cuticle, and showed that a certain soap, or a certain paste, often produced effects quite con- trary to those ... ... often produced effects quite con- trary to those expected of them, if the soap and the paste toned up a skin which needed relaxing, or relaxed a skin...

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...and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of yellow soap in a tray, a tooth-brush, a rat-tailed shaving brush, one huckaback to... ...tic discord; pill vendors and preachers, theaters and charities, marvelous soaps and astonishing pickles, type- writing machines and sewing machines, ...

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...well have essayed to strike fire with my knuckles against a bit of Windsor soap. But one afternoon the evil impulse in me mastered me, and the followi... ...r the empty grate, a blacking box and brush; on a chair, a tin basin, with soap and a ragged towel; in a newspaper a few crumbs of gingernuts and a mo...

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... by her side there was an odd bubbling that put her in mind of blowing the soap-suds into a froth when preparing them for bubble blowing; but when she... ...something very unlike the long pipes her big brother used, or the basin of soap-suds. There was a beautifully shaped glass bottle, and into it went a ...

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... placard at the mouth of the railway tunnel urging the existence of Jinks’ Soap upon the passing travel- ler. The oblong object on the placard repres...

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...grain, then, go my fat, to buds my sap, For all the usefulness there is in soap. D’you think the Boche will ever stew man-soup? Some day, no doubt, if...

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...ly from ignorance of the proper proportions of things. Let a puppy eat the soap in the bath-room or chew a newly- blacked boot. He chews and chuckles ... ... that blacking and Old Brown Windsor make him very sick; so he argues that soap and boots are not whole- some. Any old dog about the house will soon s... ... beast with a chastened appetite. If he had been kept away from boots, and soap, and big dogs till he came to the trinity full-grown and with develope... ...ular routine is of no great consequence. He looked about him, and he found soap and blacking, so to speak, very good. He ate a little, and came out of... ...ponies, partners, dancing, and so on. He tasted it as the puppy tastes the soap. Only he came late to the eating, with a growing set of teeth. He had ... ...into the glare and excitement of a livelier one. No one told him about the soap and the blacking because an average man takes it for granted that an a... ...rampled, before I knew, marigold-heads, dust-bank, and fragments of broken soap-dish into confusion past all hope of mending. Next morn- ing I came up...

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...rse still, making the geyser sick? If you take a small barrel full of soft-soap and drop it down a geyser’s mouth, that geyser will presently be force... ...ey told me the tale I was filled with sympathy. Now I wish that I had soft-soap and tried the experiment on some lonely little beast far away in the w...

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... who when the bomb burst beside him, snatched up a shred of it, introduced soap and lather into it, crying, “Voila mon plat a barbe, My new shaving-di... ...Deputa- tion of Washerwomen with Petition; complaining that not so much as soap could be had; to say nothing of bread, and condiments of bread. The cr... ... the Salle de Manege, was heard plaintive: “Du pain et du savon, Bread and Soap.” (Moniteur &c. (Hist. Parl. xxiv. 332-348.) And now from six o’clock,... ...ing it out at a just rate of eleven-pence a pound; likewise coffee-chests, soap-chests, nay cinnamon and cloves-chests, with aquavitae and other forms... ...lution - V olume Three and sorrow and sin flee away? Not bread to eat, nor soap to wish with; and the reign of perfect Felicity ready to arrive, due a... ...o strike in, at the right season! Neither is there bread; neither is there soap: see the Patriot women selling out sugar, at a just rate of twenty-two... ... and the Jacobin prophecy had been ful- filled. But Towns are not built of soap-froth; Lyons Town is built of stone. Lyons, though it rebelled against... ...by black deluges of Sansculottism; and has heard the shrill cry, Bread and Soap. For, as we say, its the nucleus of Chaos; it sat as the centre of San...

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...se. You take it? Hooray! Sold again, and got the seat!” These Dear Jacks soap the people shameful, but we Cheap Jacks don’t. We tell ‘em the truth a...

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...oman can bear to see him—for he will shave—first cover his face with white soap with that ridiculous centre-piece to his trowsers reaching quite up to...

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.... There was something in them for a waistcoat- maker, an hotel-keeper or a soap-vendor. I could imagine “We always use it” pinned on their bosoms with...

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...he thing like the wig is dashed into your face and eyes, covered over with soap, and for five min- utes you are drowned in lather:you can’t see, the s... ... can’t see, the suds are frothing over your eye-balls; you can’t hear, the soap is whiz- zing into your ears; can’t gasp for breath, Miss MacWhirter’s... ...s down your throat with half a pailful of suds in an in- stant—you are all soap. Wicked children in former days have jeered you, exclaiming, “How are ... ... children in former days have jeered you, exclaiming, “How are you off for soap?”Y ou little knew what saponacity was till you entered a Turkish bath.... ...s much inferior to the method employed in the capital. At Cairo, after the soap, you are plunged into a sort of stone coffin, full of water which is a...

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...nto this room he crept in three interminable min- utes and took a piece of soap for his plunder—his trophy. He turned to descend even more softly than... .... He coughed. “I can quite understand—” he said. “Why! What on earth? It’s soap! No!—you scoundrel. Don’t you move that hand.” “It’s soap,” said Mr. L... ...our washstand. No doubt it—” “Don’t talk,” said the stout man. “I see it’s soap. Of all incredible things.” “If I might explain—” 110 Twelve Stories ... ...n a few minutes, if you—” “Have you any mates? Curse you. If you start any soapy palaver I’ll shoot. Have you any mates?” “No,” said Mr. Ledbetter. “I... ...iguous.” “Lord!” said the fat man, “ambiguous! And goes about with his own soap, and wears a thundering great clerical collar. You are a blooming burg...