"Dishpan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... myself, before I tumbled to what it was; for in through the draperies behind Sukey has shuffled about as good an imitation of a black bear as you'd want to see; a big, bulky bear, all complete, even to the dishpan paws and the wicked little eyes. It's scuffin' along on all-fours, waddlin' lifelike from side to side and lettin' out that deep, grumbly ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford |
