finishing-up

Updated: May 26, 2025

"He admitted also that Nita had told him to take his things away when he left Saturday morning, but he says it was only because she didn't want Ralph Hammond to find a man's belongings there if he had occasion to go into the upstairs rooms in making his estimates for the finishing-up of the other side.

Anne Austin - Murder at Bridge

Reilly had pulled up while Turly was being interviewed. The little boy sat on a bare-backed donkey, himself looking rather at loose ends, with evidences of having dressed himself hastily without any finishing-up from Nurse Nancy. "How did you ever do it, Turly?" "How did you do it?" said Turly. "Of course I just walked into the stable and looked about for a horse.

Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert - Terry: Or, She ought to have been a Boy

A piece of flannel is, for the first part of the washing very useful that is to say, to use with the soap, and to loosen the dirt and the perspiration; but for the finishing-up process, a sponge a large sponge is superior to flannel, to wash all away, and to complete the bathing. A sponge cleanses and gets into all the nooks, corners, and crevices of the skin.

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children

After rounding-out and finishing-up and polishing-off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably into the historical vein, and told of some tremendous feats of half-a-dozen old-time steamboats of his acquaintance, dwelling at special length upon a certain extraordinary performance of his chief favorite among this distinguished fleet and then adding

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.

The mind recognizes that the work should be done by another part of itself its digestive region, in fact and naturally rebels at the finishing-up machinery being employed in work unsuited for it. According to the Sub-consciousing plan, the best thing for the man to do would be for him first to calm and quiet his mind.

William Walker Atkinson - A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga

After rounding-out and finishing-up and polishing-off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably into the historical vein, and told of some tremendous feats of half-a-dozen old-time steamboats of his acquaintance, dwelling at special length upon a certain extraordinary performance of his chief favorite among this distinguished fleet and then adding

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi