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Updated: July 11, 2025
The clerical handmaid, in a galloping whisper in Moggy's ear, told her, 'Twas a weddin' party, and such tarin' fun she never see sich dancin' and singin', and laughin' and funnin'; and she must wait a bit, and see the quality, a portion of whom, indeed, were visible as well as over-poweringly audible, through the half-open door of the front parlour; 'and there was to be a thunderin' fine supper a round of beef and two geese, and a tubful of oysters, &c, &c.
"You know I never notice things," said the artistic Cora; and "the de-lines," as their younger sisters called them, said nothing. "I might borrow some o' Mis' Bell?" suggested Sukey; "dat's nearer 'n' de sto'." "Yes, do, Sukey," her mistress agreed. "It is so hot. But what have you done with that tubful?"
Then they cracked big dishes of nuts; and popped corn that popped with the most resounding pops in all my experience popped a tubful, and Laddie melted maple sugar and poured over it and made big balls of fluff and sweetness.
Yo're bluffing, you hear me whistlin'. You dunno no more about it than I do. You can't tell me petticoats is made out of a strip of white stuff less'n a half-inch wide. I've seen too many washin's hangin' on the lines, I have. Yeah. And done too many. When I was a young one my ma would tie an apron round my neck, slap me down beside a tubful of clo'es, and tell me to fly to it. Petticoats!
Then she rejoiced in the florists, standing in the doorway sniffing. "Oh! oh! Isn't it simply lovely!" Paul saw, in the darkness of the shop, an elegant young lady in black peering over the counter curiously. "They're looking at you," he said, trying to draw his mother away. "But what is it?" she exclaimed, refusing to be moved. "Stocks!" he answered, sniffing hastily. "Look, there's a tubful."
Why should not a man give a farm to his cousin when he died, especially when that cousin's wife, Matilda, was another cousin? Then Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn by a whole tubful of relics of dead saints that when Edward died he would not stand in William's way. That, too, was a great thing to do.
He got us over there as quick as it was humanly possible. I went right in, and began to do for Ántonia; but she laid there with her eyes shut and took no account of me. The old woman got a tubful of warm water to wash the baby. I overlooked what she was doing and I said out loud:— “‘Mrs. Shimerda, don’t you put that strong yellow soap near that baby.
Still holding her, he lifted his foot, exerted a slight effort of strength, and pushed the tubful of suds and clothes off its base, upsetting it squarely over the head of the Reverend Samuel Simpson, who nearly choked before getting himself clear. "I've been hearing things about you down at the store," said Quinbey, "and I'll 'tend to your case directly."
In reaching for a new piece his foot slipped. Glancing down, to see just where the object was on which he had slipped, Tom suddenly became so interested that he dropped down on his knees in the snow. It was a piece of rock that had come up in the first tubful. At one point on the piece of rock there was a small, dull yellow glow. Reads pawed the rock over in eager haste.
'Great, answered Mike. 'We dropped on a patch here. 'Come and see us cradle the last tubful, and I'll give you the prettiest bit in the hopper, said Jim. 'Not a colour! The heart nugget you gave me long ago has worn tender places all over me. She tugged at the thin ribbon about her neck. 'I'll carry no more.
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