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Updated: June 18, 2025
His head was bare, and from the open neck of his blue flannel shirt, faded from many washings, the muscles in his throat stood out like cords in the red-brown flesh. From his uncovered dark hair to his heavy boots, he was powdered with the white dust of his mill, the smell of which floated to the group under the mulberry tree as he passed up the walk to the tavern.
Late breakfasts and late dinners, "too late" for church and market, "cleanings" out of time, and "washings" protracted till midnight, bills put off with a "call again to-morrow," engagements and promises unfulfilled, what a host of little nuisances spring to mind, at thought of the unpunctual housewife!
To the beginning, then: You, Prudence Corson, betrothed to me these three years and more; you have been buried in the waters of baptism and had your washings and anointings in the temple of the most high God. Is it not so?
Streams naturally pure as crystal, become changed to a thick, yellow mud, from this cause, early in their passage out from the hills. Many of them are turned out of their original channels, either directly for mining purposes, or in consequence of the great masses of soil and gravel that come down from the gold washings above.
Gold washings are conducted on the general plan of those in the Yeneseisk government, the details varying according to circumstances. A representation of the principal silver mine somewhat on the plan of Barnum's "Niagara with Real Water" was shown me in the museum. In general features the mines are not materially unlike silver mines elsewhere.
If you have a little money, you can probably do best by buying and draining some swamp land, which is the most productive of all, as it contains the washings of the upland for centuries. Swamp land can usually be cleared and drained for from thirty to forty dollars per acre. It can be bought very cheap and when ready to cultivate will have increased many times in value.
She believed herself to be the best washer of white clothes she had ever had the pleasure of knowing, and the value placed upon her services, and her long connection with certain families with large weekly washings, bore out this estimate of herself an estimate which she never endeavored to conceal. Nora had buried two husbands without being unduly depressed by the fact.
"Try it yourself just to see what it's like," she would suggest; and her own plump and shapely hands would yield their place on the small red velvet cushion to the long and graceless fingers of her protegee. And presently the other processes the soakings, the washings, the rubbings would follow. She also recommended exercise dumb-bells, for example. "What's the matter with fencing?" asked Jane.
Even her hair had been affected by trouble and bad health; it was combed out and hanging loose on her back, and Fan noticed that the fine bronze glint had gone out of the heavy brown tresses like joy or hope from a darkened life. She was wearing a very simple cotton wrapper, and though evidently made of the very cheapest kind of stuff, it had faded almost white with many washings.
Paul: "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the time then present," which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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