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He is engaged in cooking his supper and in washing dirty dishes; when the crowd below gets too noisy and clamorous he steps to the opening and coolly treats them to a basin of dish-water. This he repeats a number of times during the evening, saving his dish-water for that special purpose.
Most ladies, if they'd done anything for me, would have given me some money and made a beggar of me, and I should have felt as mean as dish-water. But now" she patted her little bundle and walked down the street, elated and happy. Francesca watched her out of the door with eyes that presently filled with tears.
I remembered this woman had a few dirty grey-green leaves behind some sticks against the bark wall near the door; and in spite of the sticks the fowls used to get in and scratch beds under the geraniums, and scratch dust over them, and ashes were thrown there with an idea of helping the flower, I suppose; and greasy dish-water, when fresh water was scarce till you might as well try to water a dish of fat.
It was like the bonds of a corporation, the first claim, but a comparatively small one. The hens came next; they held preferred stock, and always received a five-pound, semi-daily dividend to each pen of forty. The growing pigs came last; they held the common stock, which was often watered by the swill and dish-water from both houses and the buttermilk and butter-washing from the dairy.
The saloon votes solid," sez Arvilly, "they are faithful to their cause, they are fiery hot with zeal, the church a good many of 'em are lukewarm, some like the Laodocians, and some like dish-water ready to be emptied down into the drain. America is ruled by her cities, and they are ruled by the saloon and unrighteous trusts and political bosses.
Good-night, good friend. Yr. aff. CONCORD, April 5th, 1845. Judge, my unitary friend, how grateful was your letter, perfumed with flowers and moonlight, to an unfortunate up to his ears in manure and dish-water! For no happier is my plight at this moment.
They think a big stew that tastes like dish-water is a dinner, and if they do have anything I like they keep on having the same thing every day till I throw it in the sink. I wish I could go to a restaurant once in a while for a change, but of course I dunno's it would be proper for a lady to go alone even there. What do you think? Oh dear!" She sat brooding sadly. He had an inspiration.
Ascending the staircase which led to Petrovich's room which staircase was all soaked with dish-water and reeked with the smell of spirits which affects the eyes, and is an inevitable adjunct to all dark stairways in St. Petersburg houses ascending the stairs, Akaky Akakiyevich pondered how much Petrovich would ask, and mentally resolved not to give more than two rubles.
It looks like nothing so much as the soapy, bluish-gray dish-water that is left in the pan after the dishes have been washed." "A tempting picture!" Van exclaimed. "I know it. Sugar isn't very attractive during its process of preparation," agreed Mr. Hennessey.
"Of course nothing was done in the cabin, and I've been doing a little house-cleaning. I guess the dish-water is hot by this time if it hasn't all boiled away." Ward, as a matter of course, tied his horse to the fence and went into the cabin with her. He also asked her to stake him to a dish-towel, which she did after a good deal of rummaging.
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