"Scrubbing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Scrubbing is what they need. If you will come to-morrow morning and put these rooms in order, I will give you a dollar and ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates
... the campaign times as the spot where uncle and his visitors would stop to "take a drink," when returning from a walk. Exquisite in her neatness, Aunt Mary would frequently order the basin of her favorite spring to be well purified by a thorough scrubbing with brush and soap, followed by a prolonged rinsing with water. During her illness last fall, she frequently asked to have a pitcher of water brought from this spring, ...
— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland
... over two hours, and necessitated an attention to his toilet of a kind not commonly seen. That is to say, after a brief post-grandial nap he called for soap and water, and spent a considerable period in the task of scrubbing his cheeks (which, for the purpose, he supported from within with his tongue) and then of drying his full, round face, from the ears downwards, with a towel which he took from the waiter's shoulder. ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... boom Laughlin slid the dinghy along the towering curved wall. Once, twice, and again we stopped, and the keen scrubbing sound ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... and require any scrubbing, remember that to wash or scrub wood you must follow the grain, as rubbing across it rubs the dirt in ...
— The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking - Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes • Helen Campbell
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