"Soapsuds" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I want some STUFF, man. I want something to hold on to. I shall go amok if I don't get it. I'm a different sort of beast from you. You float in all this bunkum. I feel like a man floundering in a universe of soapsuds, up and downs, east and west. I can't stand it. I must get my foot on something solid or—I don't ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... constant attention to cleanliness, and an occasional entire clearing out with hot water: when this is done, all the parts should be carefully dried before filling again with oil. When lacquered, wipe the lacquered parts with a soft brush and cloth, and wash occasionally with weak soapsuds, wiping carefully afterwards. Brass lamps may be cleaned with oil and rottenstone every day when trimmed. With bronze, and other ornamental lamps, more care will be required, and soft flannel and oil only used, to prevent the removal of the bronze ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... 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 ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... don't need to go," said the old groceryman, as he came up to the boy, wiping the soapsuds off, and trying to smile. "I was only joshing you, and, honestly, I enjoy you. Life is a dreary burden when you are away. Somehow I have got so my blood gets thick, and my appetite fails, when you are away ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck
... "Hot soapsuds will be the best thing," she said. "If the young lady will come up with me at once, and take the frock off, I will see what ...
— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards
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