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... story of the poor artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and Trilby, Florida were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) came to be calle...

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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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... tub to my room. I undressed and settled into the bath, using rose-scented soap that I purchased in a small shop nearby. After bathing, I stepped ... ...oil into the water and undressed. I luxuriated in the tub before finding my soap and scrubbing my skin. I then washed my hair and rinsed it in the ... ...nted water. He made his way over to one side, where an alcove held mirror, soap and straight razor. He lathered chin and cheeks and shaved away th... ...hter. He wrapped his arms around me then and massaged the sandalwood-scented soap into my wet hair, kissing my forehead gently as he did so. “Lady’s ... ...d do anything for you. Now, lean back.” He supported my back and rinsed the soap from my hair in the steaming tub. The scent of sandalwood ... his ... ...d me. “Perhaps,” I suggested, “You are in need of a valet?” I collected the soap from its niche. 32 In response, Erik dipped under water and came ba... ...e back up at a kneel so that our heights were better matched. I rubbed the soap into a lather and laved his thick raven locks. Bathing together wa... ... my hair. I could just catch the comforting aroma of sandalwood from Erik’s soap lingering on my skin. I lit a lamp on the bedside table and picked... ...: the finest foods in season. There were booksellers, weavers, chandlers, soap-makers; the variety was astonishing. Even on days that I chose to b...

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...!" My mother froze and then, bending towards me, she tousled my hair, her hand all wet and soapy. I shut my eyes and opened them repeatedly to repe... ... come out of it." I suggest to him to address some his missives to the beauties on the TV soaps. He sign up to my charade enthusiastically and ins...

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...ery, their small capitalistic ventures with large levels of greed, and their soap opera, small-life concerns; but she could not conceptualize why thei... ...d the two of them; and they sank into a soothing bubble bath. Gabriele made soap castles for her son, and smacked top stories off of them, which caus... ...New York State to have germless plates. Yours also have an extra coating of soap on them to kill any forthcoming germs that might land upon them. Tha... ...it, she knew better than to forsake it. She had her distasteful coffee in a soapy cup, and once it was drunk she was pleased that by her compassiona... .... "You thought you would put a smart one on me. Hide it behind the laundry soap when I'm not looking. Nothing gets by me." On their way home throug... ...olve the problem here-- whoever the they are--use bottled water. Scrub with soap." As she stirred the soup she saw a yellow school bus drive into th... ...or artificial will do: an ocean, trees waving in the winds, passing clouds, soap spinning around in a washer. Watching clouds in particular is instr... ... cloistered domain-- were the making of a dilemma; and being in a dilemma (a soap opera of one's making) was like finding oneself in a beautiful garde... ...re for Spanish, dear heart." Michael said, "My mother would have taken dish soap and washed my mouth out with it if I had said something like that." ...

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...es and very clear grey eyes. It was impossible to pick a fault in him, and yet the sum-total was displeasing. Perhaps he was too clean; he seemed to b... ...lent progress!’ I said. I would not discourage him, you understand, but he was congeni- tally unable to learn French. Some fire, I think, is needful, ... ...the promise of supper I wished them an ironical good-night, and was lighted across the garden and noiselessly admitted to a bedroom on the ground floo... ... library, for there were traces of shelves along the wainscot. Four or five mattresses lay on the floor in a corner, with a frowsy heap of bedding; ne...

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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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...nd not daring to ask what he wanted to know. “How wonderfully they make this soap,” he said gazing at a piece of soap he was handling, which Agafea Mi... ...evin. “Yes. Oh, and where’s Vronsky now?” he asked suddenly, laying down the soap. “Vronsky?” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, checking his yawn; “he’s in Pe...

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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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...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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... 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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...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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.... ‘Late Incumbent;’ introducing the Reverend Gentleman’s broken column. ‘Departed Assessed Taxes;’ introducing a vase and towel, standing on what migh...

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...vicarage. XIV The tightness of a hempen rope Their bodies got; but laundry soap Not handsomer can rub the skin For token of the washed within. Occasio...

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...sted bread sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice and tasted like soap; she objected to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and s...

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...IFE, a Puer Eternus¸ as other poets have called it. She liked to play with soap bubbles, just like little girls throughout all the ages have loved to... ...throughout all the ages have loved to do. LIFE blew on the wand dipped in soapy water and she was amazed to see infinite bubbles appear, that were ...

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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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...p to the elbows, and the gold hoop of her wedding ring glittered among the soapsuds. Her voice was pleasant, she had a serene brow, smooth bands of ve... ... Her very bowsprit three times a week had its toilette made with a cake of soap and a piece of soft flannel. Arrayed—I must say ar- rayed—arrayed artl...

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...C. The Government was alarmed—not at such moonshine as patriotism, or at a soap-bubble of rheto- ric—but because treachery was lurking amongst their o...

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...grees of bodily labor, till at last, to adopt his own phrase, he slid into a soap vat. In other words, Giles was now a soap boiler, in a small way. He... ...ed very loudly; and one of the barbers, whose razor was descending on a well soaped chin, and another who was dressing a Ramillies wig, left their occ...

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...it. From candles to apples is but a step: Sally got to taking apples; then soap; then maple sugar; then canned goods; then crockery. How easy it is to... ... random; Sally sold molasses by weight, sugar by the yard, and fur nished soap when asked for candles, and Aleck put the cat in the wash and fed milk... ... the corner a wash stand, with real china ware bowl and pitcher, and with soap in a china dish, and on a rack more than a dozen towels—towels too cle... ...ship’s passengers was in the con stant habit of appeasing his hunger with soap and oakum between meals. In Palestine he tells of ants that came eleve...

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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... ...a Deputation 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,... ...g it out at a just rate of eleven-pence a pound; likewise cof- fee-chests, soap-chests, nay cinnamon and cloves-chests, with aquavitae and other forms... ...be the brother of man, 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- tw... ... and the Jacobin proph- ecy had been fulfilled. 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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...e thought about. Martingales, Chiffney bits, boots; where you got the best soap, the best brandy, the name of the chap who rode a plater down the Khyb...

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...eresiarch; and I know no better. Whaur the devil did ye get thon about the soap? Is it altogether your own? I never heard it elsewhere; and yet I susp...

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...the Earth would fly past, without leaving time to say, How are you off for soap? in vexation of heart I could not help exclaiming—’That’s nothing: I’v...

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...tening, and then the other fu- neral; and Mrs Miff says, by-the-bye she’ll soap-and-water that ‘ere tablet presently, against the company arrive. Mr S...

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...ey shouldn‘t act adult-like, be overtly sexual or know-it- alls. When we look at your American television, we cringe. The things you do to sell soap a...

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...les it contained— some shirts, a bottle of whiskey, a few cakes of Windsor soap, &c. &c.,—I had carried it thus far on my shoulders, but now was compe... ...s burning bright on the mantel, flow- ers in china vases, every variety of soap, and a flask of the precious essence manufactured at the neighboring c... ... her hair beau- tifully; my wife at the counter (behind the tray of patent soaps, &c.) cut as handsome a figure as possible; and it was my hope that O...

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... the Lord, and to counsel them one on one. We also distributed deodorants, soap, clothing, and Bibles. My heart just cried at hearing the stories of a...

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...y the smaller woods around them, Pour some water through the ashes, Make a soap of magic virtue, Thus to cleanse my blackened visage, Thus to cleanse ... ... Mixed it with the fat and marrow Of the reindeer of the mountains, Made a soap of magic virtue, Thus to cleanse the iron artist, Thus to beautify the... ...ht the sister Only water filled with evil, Water for the infant’s eyelids, Soap and water from the bath room. “To his wife the brother whispered, Whis...

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...off their women immediately, under the pretext of finding them brushes and soap; but the captain wisely opposed this, for he said they were quite fit ...