"You poor swabs!

He fastened half a dozen swabs, such as are used for drying decks, to the dredge.

These dragged along after the dredge over the surface of the mud, and entangled the creatures living theremultitudes of which, twisted up in the strands of the swabs, were brought to the surface with the dredge.

A greaser touched the crosshead-slides with a tallow swab, and a panting fireman thrust a bar through the furnace door.

But say; suppose that doctor's one of these swabs who serve out number nine pills for shell-shock, broken leg, dyspepsia, housemaid's knee and the creeping itch?

Two whole squadrons had to eat lousy biscuit for a week because that swab sold the same meat five times over.

"Not all the French are swabs!" said Jeremy grievously as we took our leave of him.

"If I'd only stopped to think, instead o' being in such a hurry to do good to others, I should ha' been all right, and the pack o' monkey-faced swabs on the <i>Lizzie and Annie</i> wot calls themselves sailor-men would 'ave had to 'ave got something else to laugh about.

"If I'd only stopped to think, instead o' being in such a hurry to do good to others, I should ha' been all right, and the pack o' monkey-faced swabs on the Lizzie and Annie wot calls themselves sailor-men would 'ave had to 'ave got something else to laugh about.

Aunt Adeline was very busy, making swabs and bandages.

She began to wonder whether the swabs and bandages were not a pretext for getting away from Colin.

" "Where's the beer?" demanded the incensed Mr. Wilks; where's the beer, you underhanded swab?"

"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!"

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.

Examine the bore to see that there are in evidence no patches of metal fouling which, if present, can be readily detected by the naked eye, then swab out with the swabbing solutiona dilute metal-fouling solution (subparagraph j).

Let it stand for 30 minutes, pour out the standard solution, remove hose and breech plug, and swab out thoroughly with soda solution to neutralize and remove all trace of ammonia and powder fouling.

Be it as it may, away goes the poor genius; his long cloak, picturesque enough in calm weather, fluttering about uncomfortably enough, while the rain washes his long curls into swabs; out through the old garden, between storm-swept laurels, beneath dark groaning pines, and through a door in the wall which opens into the lane.

This may be applied by means of what are called 'swabs.'

In their simplest form swabs may consist only of hay-bands or several layers of thick bandage bound round the foot and coronet, and kept cool by having water constantly poured upon them.

Cold swabs are perhaps most in favour.

In simple cases of periostitis, those caused by a blow but free from an actual wound, the most beneficial treatment is the continued application of cold by means of a hose-pipe or by swabs.

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.

'Steady, Roy!' cried Ken. 'These swabs are no better than Germans.

SWAB, PAUL R. Deep earth.

On this particular Sunday, however, she starts out armed not with the picture roll and lyric book, but with a motley collection of soap and clean rags, cotton swabs and iodine and ointment.