"Soapsuds" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... road for walking. The old buckboard creaked and groaned with its load of eight girls, their Guardian, and the driver. Every once in a while the horses would stop and the driver dismount and with his handkerchief wipe off the white sweat that looked like soapsuds. ...
— How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl • Irene Elliott Benson
... the brave old soldier, stripping for the unwonted toil. "I'll risk my arm in soapsuds, an you will risk ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... wash-stand and clothes-press straggled about the floor, and in the corners were three beds, garnished with tattered pillow-cases, and covered with white counterpanes, grown gray with longing for soapsuds and a wash-tub. The plainer and humbler of these beds was designed for the burly Mr. Javins; the others had been made ready for the extraordinary envoys (not envoys extraordinary) who, in defiance of all ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various
... instantly wiped the soapsuds from her brown but shapely arms, and, whipping a wet hand under her apron, took the note just as Sally had. It contained ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... was even worse than the old, as will be shown hereafter. His name was Master Kppner, and he was a tall fellow with a grim face, and a mouth so wide that at every word he said the spittle ran out at the corners, and stuck in his long beard like soapsuds, so that my child had an especial fear and loathing of him. Moreover, on all occasions he seemed to laugh in mockery and scorn, as he did when he opened the prison-door to us, and saw my poor child sitting in her grief and distress. But he straightway ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... "I feel there is an Hour of Summer's Sunset still left. We will abide where we are, and keep as long as we can out of the Smell of your Soapsuds. . . . Let's sit ...
— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning |
