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More "Dishpan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the kitchen after they had finished doing the breakfast dishes. Ophelia, after water for a vase of roses, came into the room while Skinny was rinsing the shirt in the large tin dishpan. ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... to the rest of the house; beside that is a big clothes basket, where the soiled clothes are kept. Close to the fire, one on each side, the Grandfather and the Grandmother are sitting in comfortable chairs. Near the front and a little at one side are a table and a chair. On the table is a dishpan and a number of dishes, which the Mother is washing when the ...
— The Christmas Dinner • Shepherd Knapp
... was hammering a dishpan on a wheel of the chuck wagon, regardless of the damage he was inflicting on the pan, and screaming ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin
... a very weary Blue Bonnet who turned the dishpan upside down and hung the dish-cloth on a bush to dry. The long tramp of the morning, the preparations for the bonfire party, and then the exhausting experience of getting dinner, had tired even her physique, which had seldom ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs
... back door and pounded on the dishpan with a wooden spoon to announce that dinner was ready. It was quite a sumptuous meal: potatoes baked in the ashes, beans baked in the brick oven, coffee made on the hearth, fish cooked in the skillet, and pancakes made on a griddle with ...
— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... with her hands still automatically at work in the flooded dishpan, turned to face her daughter. "Alice," she said, tremulously, "what do I ask ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... asked his papa, as he looked in the back of the shiny dishpan to see if his collar ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis
... Cameron, no wonder he was thin and pale. She threw out the coffee, which she suspected had been made by the time-saving method of pouring water on last night's grounds, and made a fresh pot of it. After that she inspected the tea towels, and getting a tin dishpan, set them to boil in it on the top ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... "long hairs." He had come to the Galiuro Mountains in '69, and since '69 he had remained in the Galiuro Mountains, spite of man or the devil. At present he possessed some hundreds of cattle, which he was reputed to water, in a dry season, from an ordinary dishpan. In times past ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... poised upon the dishpan's utmost verge The heirloom teapot old, with flowers bedight. And ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... shack was conspicuously clean, from the pots, pans, and cooking utensils, which hung on a row of nails behind the stove, to the dish-cloth, which was spread carefully to dry over the dishpan. Had Shock's experience of bachelors' shacks and bachelors' dishes been larger, he would have been more profoundly impressed with that cooking outfit, and especially with the dish-cloth. As it was, the dishcloth gave Shock a ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor
... out and beat a tattoo on the bottom of a dishpan. Baptiste answered with a yell. But though keenly hungry, no man would demean himself to do other than walk with apparent reluctance to his place at the table. At the further end of the camp was a big fireplace, and from the door of the fireplace ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... them women folks that air so light-minded you can't anchor 'em down with a sewin'-machine, nor a dishpan, nor a husband 'n' young ones, nor no namable kind of a thing; the least wind blows 'em here 'n' blows 'em there, like dandelion puffs. As time went on, the widder got herself a beau now 'n' then; but as fast as she hooked ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Madame desires me to say that she knows what is keeping you in Nice—it is another lady. I told her that instead of amusing yourself with another lady you were weeping for me and home and your Wogg. She was greatly touched at that and almost wept herself into her dishpan. You are a dear creature and I love you, but I am not going to say that I am lonesome lest you come flying back to this den of death." In the meantime he wrote her letters in which he expressed his own loneliness in humourous verses, illustrated with drawings, ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
... and a spoon and a tenpenny nail Stole a tin dishpan and went for a sail. But the cook he grew curious, Fussy, and furious; Gathered his trappings, and went on their trail. He found them that night in a pitiful plight, And sent them all home on the ...
— The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes • Leroy F. Jackson
... blouse, rolled up the sleeves of her waist with a business-like air and elbowed him away from the dishpan unceremoniously. ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs
... me almost past endurance!" Mrs. Kate complained, burying two plump forearms in a dishpan of sudsy hot water, and bringing up a handful of silver. "It's because Ford had been fighting when he came here, and she knows he has been slightly addicted to liquor. She looks down on him, and ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... off from school!" In her stupefied amazement Susan actually forgot to pick up another plate from the dishpan. ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... thoughtfully with his knife, looked into his coffee-cup, stirred the dregs absently and dipped out half a spoonful of undissolved sugar, which he swallowed meditatively. He tossed plate, cup and spoon toward the dishpan, sent knife and fork after them and got out his smoking material. And the Happy Family, grouped rather closely together and watching unobtrusively, stirred to the listening point. The liar was about ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... not bound by any manmade almanac and unable to contain itself till the melting of the snow, again leaped the barrier of the Mississippi, this time near Natchez, and ran through the South like water from a sloshed dishpan. The prized reforms of the black legislatures were wiped out more quickly even than their greatgrandfathers' had been in 1877. The wornout cotton and tobacco lands offered hospitable soil while cypress swamps and winter-swollen creeks pumped ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... one," protested Mary. "Instead of two, get me a new dishpan. Mine leaks, and smears the stove ...
— At the Foot of the Rainbow • Gene Stratton-Porter
... cold water to set it in," he commanded. We brought the dishpan with water from the well, where ...
— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge
... echoed the audience in a loud discordant roar. Cookie over his dishpan flinging it back in a tremendous basso. Cookie was the noble youth's only musical rival, and when he had finished his work we would invite him to join us at the fire and regale us with plantation melodies and camp-meeting hymns. ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... want to buy a tin plate?" asked the peddler, trying hard not to be frightened, "or would rather have a dishpan?" ...
— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory
... bees I used to save many a hiveful for him by banging on mother's dishpan when they started to swarm. ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... as we got this off, and before we could begin on the dishpan chorus, Honeybunch came at us with a couple of bed-slats ...
— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer
... the evening meal a night or two later, One-Eye knocked, finding Johnnie up to his elbows in the dishpan, while Barber smoked and Cis dried the supper plates. The cowboy seemed much embarrassed just at first, and avoided Cis's smiling look as she thanked him for the apple. Her little speech over, however, he soon warmed into ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... time had advanced on the teakettle, and, as soon as he could, he bore it off and solemnly poured a goodly supply of boiling-hot water into the waiting dishpan. ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
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