After an examination, the gold was taken to the cabin of Weimer, and Mrs. Weimer instructed to boil it in saleratus-water; but she, being engaged in making soap, pitched the piece into the soap-kettle, where it was boiled all day and all night.

" Denham took her hand without further ceremony, and holding it firmly, pushed back the hanging lace from her arm and began rubbing the soap over the burns, without so much as a word of pity for the pain he knew he was giving her.

And so Adam addresses an exhortation to his Eve: "Don't buy bread, bake it; don't buy flour, grind your own; don't buy soap, make it; don't buy canned, preserved, or dried food, carry on the processes yourself; don't buy fruits and vegetables, raise them.

He uses no soap, and has a most uncouth-looking razor, yet he shaves the heads, beards, moustaches, and armpits of his customers with great deftness.

And provided a person is not absolutely in trade, not actually engaged in selling soap, or matches, or mustard, society doesn't care a straw how his money has been made.

But his mind was intent only on finding that American shaving-soap.

Patsey looked in the direction indicated; and, seeing nothing that resembled soap, regarded me attentively for a moment, and then wheeled and darted away.

They sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles.

"He stood a little while longer chinking 'is money, and when he took off his coat to wash Ginger Dick poured the water out for im and Peter Russet picked up the soap, which 'ad fallen on the floor.

I suppose you've got some soap on board.

"You mark my word," said Diggory, "as soon as the prefects have gone down to supper those chaps from over the way'll come across and pay us out for throwing that soap.

Presently I saw the three boys coming towards me, and Ned laughingly remarked that he and Hal wanted some soap to wash their shirts with.

And his mother had left some soft soap on the fire.

Any soap, if you haven't." "I've only got this," he said lifting the soap from the dishpan.

I'll loan you a cake o' soap.

Under this regulation, a large number of boxes marked "soap" were shipped on a steamboat for Lexington.

I will miss my soaps, but I think it's high time I put that nasty old creep in his proper place.

He was painfully conscious that his feet were muddy, and his chubby fingers certainly needed soap and water; it was Friday, and Pompey, one of the black servants, had evidently been scrubbing the front steps.

We offered soap and candles as premiums to anybody who would buy our salt pork and dried apples, and taught the natives how to make cooling drinks and hot biscuits, in order to create a demand for our redundant lime-juice and baking-powder.

You sassed that poor swatty that wanted to keep you out of this, tooting your bazoo like a man peddling soap; but now it's up to you.

"Last house I scrubbed out I did it so thoroughly they accused me of pouching the soap.

First of all he took out the bedding and shook it thoroughly, and then, procuring soap and a bucket of water, began to scrub with a will.

'Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away;' and so the pieces paid for the ransom of the Inca of Peru or Richard the Lion-hearted, the material of the spurs of Agincourt, the rings of Cleopatra and Zenobia, the golden targets of Solomon, fashioned from the treasures of Ophir, may purchase soap and candles and mutton-chops for John Smith.

Besides, mother keeps a bottle of ammonia in the pantry, to qualify her soap and water with, when she comes to things like these.

By the way, would you recommend soap also for hysterics?" "Applied with a close bandage over the mouth?