We found a fine cleaning going ondoors and windows open all over the houseand women scrubbing stairs, floors, and windows, rather under difficulties, with little fire and little water.

Mac's view of his whole duty to man seemed to centre in the Saturday scrubbing of Kaviak.

" This was on the morning that the Esquimer thought to escape scrubbing, even at the peril of his life, by getting up on to the swing-shelf

" Tsz-yu had said, "The pupils in the school of Tsz-hiá are good enough at such things as sprinkling and scrubbing floors, answering calls and replying to questions from superiors, and advancing and retiring to and from such; but these things are only offshootsas to the root of things they are nowhere.

"It was a school of home life, not only cooking and sewing and scrubbing, and what all you think of as domestic science, but a school of the home spiritjust the thing my people need.

Wash the potatoes well, and if necessary, use a clean scrubbing-brush to remove the dirt from them; and if possible, choose the potatoes so that they may all be as nearly the same size as possible.

Mary stopped scrubbing the kitchen floor, and Mrs. Watson left the iron so long on Teddy's shirt that it left a mark: "Say Au Revoir," sang Pearl, "but not goodbye, The past is deadlove cannot die, T'were better farhad we not met, I loved you thenI love you yet.

"I've rubbed my years away on scrubbing boards, Washed floors for women that owned less than we, An' while they played the ladies an' the lords, We smiled an' dreamed of happiness to be.

fratricida, fratricidal. frecuente, frequent. fregona, f., kitchen-maid, scrubbing-girl.

"The floor needs scrubbing."

She was not the best dressed, for her mother was a poor widow, who went out washing and scrubbing for a living.

I'm ashamed of you, you nasty little thing; your mother ought to have taken a scrubbing-brush and cleaned your mouth, never do such a thing again; come here to me.

You ridicule the idea of the abolition of slavery, because it would make the slaveholder "so poor, as to oblige him to take hold of the maul and wedge himselfhe must catch, curry, and saddle his own horsehe must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots)his wife must go herself to the wash-tubtake hold of the scrubbing broom, wash the pots, and cook all that she and her rail-mauler will eat."

When it rains I put the dishes out on a flat rock, dirty side up, and the good Lord does the scrubbing.

"Gentlemen," said he, "get your hatshaste yean' let us gang an' tak a lang wauk, for my mother an' the lasses are on a-scrubbing a whole floorfu' o' bottles; an' as I cam by, I heard her speaking about getting the ale bottled the day.

Anna Czarnik was performing her morning job of scrubbing it.

The dull raps her scrubbing brush striking the stair corner just behind your wall.

The scrubbing can't be helped, of course, but there is a rule against unnecessary noise, and she shouldn't have been singing.

Learning to pin back his sailor collar to save soiling the white braid on it (that meant scrubbing).

"I'll pay it back," she cried, "if I have to go out scrubbing to earn the money.

A few doors away little Helen Keefe, all elbows, is scrubbing her front steps.

The moon was broad, like one of the shields in the great hall, whither I went often when the great Duke was not at home, and when old Hanne would be busy cleaning the pavement and scrubbing viciously at the armor of the iron knights who stood on pedestals round about.

The floor, from habitual scrubbing with the common weed which politeness has to call Helenium autumnale, was stained a bright, clean yellow.

From scrubbing floors and lighting fires, cooking, gardening, and harnessing the pony, I grew thinner than everas thin as a whipping-post, a hurdle, or a haddock!

Here I've been scrubbing for half an hour and it won't come off.