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"Woman, Padre" nodding to the priest, and rubbing his chin so that it rasped like sand-paper "Woman, my druggist" throwing a sly look at the Chemist "woman, neither as cook nor bottle-washer, is what he needs.
I was boot-black for the captain, mates, and carpenter, bottle-washer for the cook, and chamber-boy for the men for it was mine to swab out the forecastle, and wait upon the sailors generally. Oh! it was a terrible life. I was well punished for my one act of filial disobedience well rewarded for my aspirations and longings for the sea.
Make it at a hundred, for what wagers you like." "And when?" "To-morrow afternoon, if you say; I'm not stopping long, I am afraid. I'm off up river soon." "Let's see," mused Williams. "Haskins is away, and I doubt if Westover could come, for he's Officer of the Day, also bottle-washer. And " "How about my friend Mr. Cowles?" asked Orme.
Still, that my merit might leave him no excuse for forgetting, I determined that it should not escape attention: and finding myself confined to hospital with a trifling hurt which in no way interfered with my activity, and being at once pounced upon by an over-worked and red-eyed orderly and pressed into service as emergency-man, nurse, and general bottle-washer for three over-crowded tents, I flung into my new duties a zeal which ended by undoing me.
Philpot himself bore the office of "second under bottle-washer" in Willoughby; that is, he assisted the boy who assisted the chemistry fag who assisted the assistant master to the science master; and on the strength of this distinction he was allowed some special privileges in the way of improving himself in his favourite branch of study.
But, at the other side of the Atlantic, the term bears a much wider application, extending to all "connected with the press" from the "head cook and bottle-washer," down, nearly, to that bottle imp, the printer's "devil."
My chief danger, as she had instantly seen, was the chance of Sonia betraying me to the police. The latter, who knew nothing of the part I was playing as a sort of unpaid bottle-washer to the Secret Service, would at once jump at the chance of arresting an escaped convict especially such a well-advertised one as myself.
Oi'm me own housekaper, cook, an' bottle-washer; but, av Oi do say ut mesilf, Oi've seen wor-rse!" "So you are Daddy Dunnigan?" asked Bill as he gazed hungrily upon the steaming saucers of oatmeal, the sizzling ham, and the yellow globes of fresh eggs fried "sunny side up." "Ye'll take a wee nip befoor ye eat?" asked his host, reaching to the chimney-shelf for a squat, black bottle.
There are too many English in Naples itself, though I thought it would make a first happy hunting-ground when I knew the language better and had altered myself a bit more. Meanwhile I got a billet of several sorts on one of the loveliest spots that ever I struck on all my travels. The place was a vineyard, but it overhung the sea, and I got taken on as tame sailorman and emergency bottle-washer.
"These are the Captain's friends." "Show me a man's friends and . . ." began Shaw, dogmatically, but abruptly passed into the tone of admonition. "You take your mug out of the way, bottle-washer. They ain't friends of mine. I ain't a vagabond. I know what's due to myself. Quit!" he hissed, fiercely. Hassim, with an alert movement, grasped the handle of his kris.
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