There are many things, such as the collecting of garbage, the washing of the dead poor, the cleaning of cesspools, the butchery of cattle for the market, and the execution of capital criminals, which can scarcely be called pleasant to do, and must yet be done.

In it go on the industrial processes of cooking, cleaning, sewing, washing; the care of silver, glass, linen, and household stores; the activities of buying food and clothing; the moral responsibilities of teaching and training servants and children.

He maintained that they would stoop just as much in gardening, and washing and nursing their children, as in sewing; and that we were not such frail or unpliant machines as to be seriously injured, unless we persisted in one set of straight, formal notions, but that we were adapted to variety, and were benefited by it.

He drew a bucket of water, and bared his muscular arms, then, after washing them, soused his curly hair and begrimed face, and came out wonderfully brightened by the operation.

" "That," said Porphyry, "is our own Platonic dirty linen, and I heartily wish we were washing it elsewhere.

But the tide was still rising, and very soon the biggest waves began to come quite over the rocks, rolling the big beasts over and even washing them off, and it angered them when the waves struck them, and they roared aloud, and by and by they began to go away, some disappearing beneath the water, others with heads above the surface swimming away out into the open sea, until all were gone.

You, then," he continued, "Simmias and Cebes, and the rest, will each of you depart at some future time; but now 'destiny summons me,' as a tragic writer would say, and it is nearly time for me to betake myself to the bath; for it appears to me to be better to drink the poison after I have bathed myself, and not to trouble the women with washing my dead body.

When we called, the mother and one or two of her daughters were busy in the next room, washing their poor bits of well-kept clothing.

It was a good kind of cottage, in a clean street, called "Maudland Bank," and the whole place had a tidy, sweet look, though it was washing-day.

The old widow had just been able to earn what kept soul and body together in her sick girl and herself, during the last eleven years, by washing and such like work.

In addition to what the old woman could get by a day's washing now and then, she received 1s.

Think of the poor old soul trailing about the world, trying to "scratch a living" for herself and her daughter by washing; and having to hurry home from her labour to attend to that sick girl through eleven long years.

Since that time, he had lived in this cellar, all alone, washing and cooking for himself.

In the next cottage where we called, in this row, there was a woman washing.

And Smike says, 'W-i-n-d-e-r,' 'All right,' Squeers says, 'now go out and wash 'em,' Well, I hope I got the spelling a little nearer right, but I came home and began washing my windows.

I washed and ironed till the washing machines ruined that work fer all of us black folks.

Soon as the washing was brung in the clothes had to be sorted out and every snag place patched nice.

My mother supported herself by cooking and washing.

Then she got a chance to work on a small boat cooking and doing the boat washing, and there would be weeks that some of the deck hands would have to help her because they would have such a crowd of raftsmen.

Although his mode of life was regular and extremely retired,living alone, having never married, cooking his own victuals and washing his own clothes, and scarcely ever being absent from home,yet there was nothing misanthropic in his character; for a gentleman who knew him thus speaks of him: 'I recollect him well.

"The main bother is when I'm washing myselfunless I keep my hat on I don't know where my face stops.

The wife of a prominent Judge was making arrangements with the colored laundress of the village to take charge of their washing for the summer.

"Missus," said the woman, "I'll do your washing, but I'se gwine ter charge you double for your husband's shirts.

"Well," said the laundress, "I don't mind washing fur an ordinary man, but I draws de line on circus tents, I sho' do.

MESSAGES "Have you the rent ready?" "No, sir; mother's gone out washing and forgot to put it out for you.