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Aunt M'riar organized the tea-tray to take away and wash up at the sink, after emptying saucer-superfluities into the slop-basin. Mrs. Burr referred to the advantages we enjoy as compared with our forbears, instancing especially our exemption from the worship of wooden images, Egyptian Idles a spelling accommodated to meet an impression Mrs.
The twenty or twenty-five kopeks that you pay for the samovar teapot, tumbler, saucer, spoon, and slop-basin being included under the generic term pribor frees you from all corkage and similar dues.
Mutimer, who had been talked over to compliance with a project she felt Richard would not approve she had no longer the old authority, and spent her days in trying to piece on the present life to the former found refuge in a habit more suitable to the kitchen than the dining-room; she had collected all the teaspoons within reach and was pouring hot-water upon them in the slop-basin, the familiar preliminary to washing up.
When he had done dressing himself, the bag gave another little hop, and he went to it and took out A tablecloth and a napkin. A sugar-basin full of the best loaf-sugar. Two forks, two teaspoons, two knives, and a pair of sugar-tongs, and a butter-knife all marked G. A teacup, saucer, and slop-basin. A jug full of delicious cream. A canister with black tea and green.
You must wash it first of all, simply hold it in cold water to stop the pain, and keep it there, keep it there.... Make haste, mamma, some water in a slop-basin. But do make haste,” she finished nervously. She was quite frightened at the sight of Alyosha’s wound. “Shouldn’t we send for Herzenstube?” cried Madame Hohlakov. “Mamma, you’ll be the death of me.
"Slop-basin" was the beginning and end of his knowledge of the English language. M. Ducros used his one word of English only in moments of great elation. Should, for instance, his sister Mlle. Louise have surpassed herself in the kitchen, M. Ducros, after tasting her chef d'oeuvre, would joyously ejaculate, "Slop-basin!" several times over.
"I only wanted information," said her brother, as he deposited the salad in question in the slop-basin. Mrs. Kingdom, with a resigned expression, tried to catch her niece's eye and caught the captain's instead. Miss Nugent happening to glance up saw her fascinated by the basilisk glare of the master of the house. "Some more tea, please," she said.
Let's hear something more romantic." "There was the calves to suckle sometimes, when the mother died or was sold." "Calves! H'm! H'm! Well, but how could you do that?" "Dipped my fingers in milk, and let the calves suck 'em. The silly creatures thought it was their mothers' teats. Like this." With a happy inspiration she put her fingers into the slop-basin, and held them up dripping.
"Oh, please sir, missus will be wanting me now." "Bother missus. I want some more milk," he said, emptying the milk-jug into the slop-basin. "Run down and get some." Mary Ann was startled by the splendour of the deed. She took the jug silently and disappeared. When she returned he said: "Well, you haven't told me half yet. I suppose you kept bees?" "Oh, yes, and I fed the pigs." "Hang the pigs!
It was understood in his family that "slop-basin" always indicated that the master of the house was in an extremely contented frame of mind. The judicial system of France is not as concentrated as ours. Every Sous-prefecture in France has its local Civil Court with a Presiding Judge, an Assistant Judge, and a "Substitut."
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