We swabbed the decks so thoroughly before leaving Bridgeboro.

"An' if it is I'll swab the floor of hell with a wad of cotton wool on a toothpick, s'help me the good Gawd!"

BOY (Second Class) John Simpkins, a bad 'un, you must know, Was told to swab a plank one day by a First-Class C.P.O., Whose eagle eye, returning, on the deck espied a stain "Boy Simpkins, fetch your mop, me lad, and swab yon plank again.

It is fine for piles, rub your back for lumbago, and swab out your throat for sore throat.

Tommy and Joyce were both on deck: the former in his shirt-sleeves, swabbing down his new paint with a wet mop.

"Your inexperience is something appalling, for a man that has fried his own bacon and swabbed out his own frying-pan as many times as you have.

In order to save time they did not wait to swab out the piece, and the only preparation make by them was to clear the interior of smoke.

In spite of all his endeavours, the tears gushed from the young man's eyes, and the Commodore, perceiving his distress, made a last effort and consoled him in these words: "Swab the spray from your bowsprit, my good lad, and coil up your spirits.

However, due to pitting, the presence of dust, other abrasives, or to accumulation, metal fouling may occur in clearly visible flakes or patches of much greater thickness, much more difficult to remove. (c) In cleaning the bore after firing it is well to proceed as follows: Swab out the bore with soda solution (subparagraph j) to remove powder fouling.

Said the steward, as he swabbed out the tub for his successor: 'That was the Chief Engineer.

" "Anything new, ma?" Mrs. Hassiebrock, now at the sink, swabbed a dish with gray water.

"Don't you see the young gentleman a-swabbing his eyes, and note his black clothes?" "What do you mean, Captain Franks, by laying your hand on your owners?

Here and there a merry-looking fellow, with a brush and a pail of paste and a roll of papers over his arm, would swab up a casualty list of two or three thousand names, amid roars of good-natured laughter.