Use a soft wash cloth made from a piece of old table linen, towel, knitted underwear, or any other very soft material, and have two pieces, one for the face and head and one for the body.

The towel should be soft and clean also.

He is just about this time sewing up Briggs's coat-sleeves, putting copperas into his water jug, and powdered galls on his towel, and making various other little returns for this morning's favour.

Turn out cakes on a towel.

Whisking off her coat and hat, she rolled up her sleeves, and for want of an apron pinned a big towel round her; a very dirty towel it was too, but something she must have to protect her frock, and it had to be the towel or nothing.

Whisking off her coat and hat, she rolled up her sleeves, and for want of an apron pinned a big towel round her; a very dirty towel it was too, but something she must have to protect her frock, and it had to be the towel or nothing.

Whisking off her coat and hat, she rolled up her sleeves, and for want of an apron pinned a big towel round her; a very dirty towel it was too, but something she must have to protect her frock, and it had to be the towel or nothing.

While supper was preparing, I took from my trunk a towel, clean shirt, and cake of soap, and spent half an hour in bathing in the river upon the clean yellow sand.

Behind it, where it had fallen, lay a towel, covered with stains, as if some one had wiped bloody hands on it.

"To summarize," he said, "we have here as clues indicating a crime, the rope, the broken knife, the slipper, the towel, and the clock.

" The slip I had found behind the wash-stand said "Rope, knife, shoe, towel.

But when I got to the top of the stairs, it was only Mr. Howell, who had brought his visitor to the flood district, and on getting her splashed with the muddy water, had taken her to my house for a towel and a cake of soap.

I showed him the towel and the slipper and the broken knife, and where we had found the knife-blade.

Perhaps he had remembered the towel.

I used to read it over, "rope, knife, shoe, towel, Horn" and get more and more bewildered.

" "A blood-stained towel behind the wash-stand.

CHAPTER XII The slipper, the rope, the towel, and the knife and blade were produced in court, and I identified them all.

" "Now then, this towel, Mrs. Pitman.

"And what's more," I flashed, "if he has a cut on his wrist, he put it there himself, to account for the towel.

" "What did you do then?" "I went back to the room, and stanched the blood with a towel.

" "The towel?"

But, as it happened, he cut his wrist while cutting the boat loose, and so we had the towel.

You furnish your own towel and the most untidy stranger in the compartment usually wants to borrow it, having forgotten to bring one himself.

" Here, entirely out of breath, the old lady paused, and, going to her room, brought out a basin of water and a towel, with which she tried to wipe off the oil.

The conveniences for that purpose were a jug, a basin, and a piece of soap, on a bench in the open court, which, as it was raining pretty smartly, was a very ingenious method of dissuasion, particularly as your pocket-handkerchief, or the sleeve of your shirt, had to supply the place of a towel.