16 Verbs to Use for the Word mop

Perhaps he should have brought an egg-beateror a self-wringing mop to demonstrate, or some of the other things his friends had suggested.

I see her trundling her mop, and contemplating the whirling phenomenon through blurred optics; but to term her "a poor outcast" seems as much as to say that poor Susan was no better than she should be,which I trust was not what you meant to express.

This year, we understand, she is in a position to discard the mop in favour of something far, far better.)

D'ye 'ear?' "The gal wriggled 'er shoulders agin and went on reading, but she gave the cook a look out of 'er innercent baby eyes that nearly made 'im drop the mop.

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.

[Illustration: TAKING UP POSITION.] Having reached its destination, and been detached or "unlimbered" from the front carriage, we next see the action of loading; the ramrod having at its other extremity a sheep-skin mop, larger than the bore of the piece, and called "a sponge."

A gray matron, stout, and too tightly dressed for comfort, received him uneasily, a dark-eyed girl befriended him with a look and a quiet word, while a tall man, nodding a vigorous mop of silver hair, crushed his hand in a great bony fist.

But by using a very small quantity of the bisulphide mixture, the plated surfaces were so bright that the use of polishing mops or buffs could be almost dispensed with.

No other woman in Farewell possessed such a mop.

Somebody had run a mop over the polished floor, thus taking up most of the water.

He shucked mops, put handles on rakes and did things like that in addition to his farming.

He hangs about the place, now bringing in a log, now carrying a bucket, now spinning a mop, now slouching down the garden to feed the numerous fowls that scratch around the stumps of cabbages.

Well done, Jack, says the carpenter, give them the other dose: and so stepping forward himself, takes a mop, and dipping it into the pitch-pot, he and his man so plentifully flung it among them, as that none escaped being scalded; upon which they all made the best of their way, crying and howling in such a frightful manner, that, in all my adventures, I never heard the like.

Can you imagine the suspense certain parties will feel when they rush into a shop for their early morning 'thought mop' and have to cling to the bar while Arthur looks up their past performances in Bingham's Bartenders' Guide.

They said rather: "We will not content ourselves with merely raking the yard and sweeping the floors, we will use mop and brush, water and soap.

He would brush his curly mop of hair away from his forehead, lift his eyes, part his lips, showing a row of tiny white teeth; then a dimple would appear in each cheek and a seraphic expression (wholly at variance with the facts) would overspread the baby face, whereupon the beholderMother Carey, his sisters, the cook or the chambermaid, everybody indeed but Cousin Ann, who could never be wheedledwould cry "Angel boy!"

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  mop