I just want a wash, and then we'll go right in to Joyce's place.

"And now," he suggested, "you would like a wash, perhaps?

Presently they heard the wash of the water caused by the movement of a gondola beneath the window.

I had, in the meantime, been ordered to prepare a wash of salt and pepper, and wash his wounds with it.

She finds her Boxes, and her Thoughts betray'd By the Corruption of the Chambermaide: Then throwes her Washes and dissemblings By; And Vowes nothing but Ingenuity.

Not content with having a red wash over it, the red was the most unseasonable of all redsa salmon-colour; but the greatest of all heats was within.

We got to our berth in the East India Docks at last, and arter we were made fast we went below to 'ave a wash and change into our shoregoing togs.

It is a well-watered island, and its level plains, which receive the wash from its heavily forested mountains, have a soil of unsurpassed fertility in which cocoanuts come to bearing in five years or even less.

Up the canyon road, the Ranger sent the chestnut at a run, nor did he draw rein as they crossed the rough boulder-strewn wash.

He had not only to bring in the coal and water, but to rub the clothes and turn the wringer, and to humiliate himself before the public by emptying the tubs and hanging out the wash in full view of the neighbors; and he had to deliver the clothes when laundered.

In Homer they were used for drawing wagons: thus Nausicaa drove a mule team to haul out the family wash, and Priam made his visit to Achilles in a mule litter.

"I should be delighted," said Reuben, "if the programme would include a satisfactory wash.

For everywhere about those Ascot moors, the top of the sands has been ploughed by shore-ice in winter, as they lay a-wash in the shallow sea; and over them, in many places, is spread a thin sheet of ice gravel, more ancient, the best geologists think, than the boulder and the boulder-clay.

Leave your family bacon frying, Leave your wash and dishes drying, Leave your little children crying; Join your husband, near or far, At the club or corner bar, For the court has taught us this: "Home is where the husband is.

There being no facility for making a by-wash at the side, the center of the dam is dished to form a weir 30 ft. long.

His napkin would miss its accustomed wash!

"'I needs a noo nigger 'oman down ter my place,' sezee, 'fer ter cook en wash, en so on; en dat young 'oman'll des fill de bill.

Now the artist who could paint the silver wash of the mist, the wriggling treacly reflection of the boat, and the raw red wrists of the man would be something of a workman.

His ground was a mixture of whiting and carpenters' glue, which he passed over several times in the coatings; his colours he ground himself and also united with them the same sort of glue, but in a much weaker state; he would in the course of painting, pass a very thin transparent wash of glue-water over the whole of the parts he had worked upon and then proceed with his finishing.

She is a very good seamstress, an excellent cookmakes cake and preserves beautifullyand washes and irons very nicely, and cannot be excelled in cleaning up a house.

Allis, upstairs, was sorting and putting away the weekly wash.

When she saw them through the window, she suddenly remembered her own wash; as she had soaked it the day before, she must go and rinse it now.

But the night was moonless and black, and I neither saw nor heard aught stirring, save the gentle sea-wash on Moonfleet beach beyond the salt meadows.

I suppose Jennie has got as much as she can do sweeping my manuscripts out of the laundry, and keeping my verses from scorching the wash.

" "Not," she explained as the children drank their tea"not that I have ever seen a gentleman wash.