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Updated: June 19, 2025
When mother is busy scrubbing the floor, little Asta must needs get hold of a wet rag behind her back and slop away at a chair, until she has got herself in a terrible mess, and then she gets smacked, and screams for a moment, but soon runs out and sings herself happy again.
There were rubber insets in her shoes which sagged so that her ankles seemed actually to touch the floor from the climbing upstairs and downstairs on her missionary treadmill of the cracked slop jar; the fly in the milk; the too-tepid shaving water; the bathroom monopoly; the infant cacophony of midnight colic; salt on the sleety sidewalk, the pasted handkerchief against a front window pane; ice water.
But you must come in until the rain is over, and try and dry yourself." "But how about the hall, Maria?" said the man. "There'll be a dreadful slop!" "Oh, I'll make that all right," she said. She disappeared, and quickly returned with a couple of rugs, which she laid, wrong side up, on the polished floor of the hallway. "Now you can step on those, sir, and come into the kitchen.
Cardon shuddered and grimaced horribly. "I've been drinking that slop by the bucketful, all day. And Pelton's throwing a victory party, tonight, and I'll have to choke down another half gallon of it. Give me a cup of coffee, and one of those good cigars of yours." Lancedale grinned at him. "Ah, yes, the jolly brewer. His own best advertisement. How's Pelton reacting to his triumph?
And slip! slop! gobble! down went the old man and the donkey. Then the cat walked on down the road, jauntily, like this. After a little, he met a procession, coming that way. The king was at the head, walking proudly with his newly married bride, and behind him were his soldiers, marching, and behind them were ever and ever so many elephants, walking two by two.
As Obadiah loved wind-music preferably to all the instrumental music he carried with him, he very considerately set his imagination to work, to contrive and to invent by what means he should put himself in a condition of enjoying it. Slop must have had three fifths of Job's patience at least to have unloosed them.
'Not only would it be full, Bell, but it would be running over, and we should positively stand in the slop, said Polly. 'No, you needn't frown at me, miss; that expression is borrowed from no less a person than Sydney Smith. 'Don't think any more about me, smiled Elsie. 'Perhaps I can come down in the course of the summer.
The question of starting such associations in England as the best means of fighting the slop system which the "Chronicle" was showing to lie at the root of the misery and distress which bred Chartists was anxiously debated.
This black and solid mass was struggling painfully onward, through the slop, the darkness, and the deluge. We waded along for three-quarters of a mile, and finally took up a position in an unsheltered beer-garden directly opposite the Castle.
You remember how he took up as much dough as he wanted, and, throwing it on his wheel, in a moment fashioned it into a teacup caught up more clay and made a saucer a larger dab and whirled it into a teapot winked at a smaller dab and converted it into the lid of the teapot, accurately fitting by the measurement of his eye alone coaxed a middle-sized dab for two seconds, broke it, turned it over at the rim, and made a milkpot laughed, and turned out a slop- basin coughed, and provided for the sugar?
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