"Wash up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... along the lane! She sprang to her feet, ran into the back kitchen, tied on her apron, hastily filled an earthenware bowl with water from the pump, and, carrying it back to the front kitchen, began to wash up the tea-things, making a busy household clatter as she slid ...
— Bessie Costrell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... help you," cried Dick, "wash up the dishes," and he turned his back on the cupboard. ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... it," replied Arthur. "We'd better lie low, and help wash up the plates, and when they're gone we can go for a ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed
... Niagara Falls, Whose waters go rumblin' and mumblin' and grumblin' And tearin' and stumblin' and bumblin' and tumblin' And foamin' and roarin' And plungin' and pourin' And wastin' the waters God gave to us creechers To wash down our liquor and wash up our feechers— Then what in the deuce Is the swish-bingled use O' keepin' them noisy old cataracts busy To give folks a headache and make ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... fortunate than himself as Betsy had carried all their earnings safely ashore, stowed away in the voluminous folds of her dress. All day long the Captain, Betsy and Paul and the uninjured seaman, patrolled the beach in the hope that something valuable might wash up. But outside of a few articles of clothing and some casks, nothing came ashore. In the evening they gave it up in despair and returned to the house that had sheltered them the previous night. The next morning after another visit ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... lot," she said with a laugh. "I did have an enamelled soup tureen I used for the potatoes, but the enamel chipped off a bit and I thought it might hurt the children if they swallowed it. So now we put the potatoes in the washing-basin and wash up ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... accompany him. My life has grown less dull from their having become more interesting to me, and as I have "made myself agreeable," we are on fairly friendly terms. My first move in the direction of fraternizing was, however, snubbed. A few days ago, having finished my own work, I offered to wash up the plates, but Mrs. C., with a look which conveyed more than words, a curl of her nose, and a sneer in her twang, said "Guess you'll make more work nor you'll do. Those hands of yours" (very brown and coarse they were) "ain't no good; never done nothing, I guess." Then to her ...
— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird
... them, all of them," she answered. "Captain Munster will tell you what he said—something about being blowed, or words to that effect. Now I must run and wash up. Did the Sydney ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... extensive one,—being only a one-storied wooden erection. One of the chief attractions of the reading-room is a collection of Colonial papers, with 'Punch,' 'The Illustrated News,' and the 'Irish Nation.' On Saturday nights, when the diggers wash up and come into town, the room is always well filled with readers. The members of the Committee are also very active in getting up entertainments and popular readings; and, in short, the Mechanics' Institute may be ...
— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles
... you'll get a bucket of water we'll be ready in short order. I've got to wash up. I'm as ...
— A Voyage with Captain Dynamite • Charles Edward Rich
... subject once or twice before, and had the remembrance of former disputes to add to his present vehemence. So it was well for the harmony of the evening that Bell and Sylvia returned from the kitchen to sit in the house-place. They had been to wash up the pans and basins used for supper; Sylvia had privately shown off her cloak, and got over her mother's shake of the head at its colour with a coaxing kiss, at the end of which her mother had adjusted her cap with a 'There! there! ha' done wi' thee,' but had no ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. I • Elizabeth Gaskell |
