Job for a barber

Usage examples of mop.

King looked on apathetically while his seconds mopped the streaming water from him, dried his face, and prepared him to leave the ring.

With the bandanna, she mopped away the specks of sweat under her eyes.

He had watched Joe mop up the dayroom with Benet for playing fast and loose with safety rules while working a hotstick job, and it put Benet in sick bay for three days.

A few moments later, as the crowd held its aching sides and mopped its eyes, Samson the Strong Man hauled prone, soaked, semi-conscious, fearfully hallucinating Buffo off up the gangway that led to the foyer as little children gave him one last tittering poke for luck before he vanished as from the face of the earth, while the clowns ran round and round the tiers of seats, kissing babies, distributing bonbons and laughing, laughing, laughing to hide their broken hearts.

The bureaucrat went back in for his briefcase, took out a handkerchief and mopped his brow.

After a few more minutes of unsuccessfully trying not to think of what lay in store for a celibate nun in a meat show, I trudged over to the Man of Many Colors, who was lying very still on one of the cots, while the Human Lizard and the India Rubber Man took turns rubbing his wrists vigorously and mopping sweat from his forehead.

Fergus continued eating until his plate was clean, mopped with ciabatta from the bread basket.

The column moved swiftly forward to cut the enemy into disorganized fragments for the following Covenanter infantry to mop up.

Cybil flicked a glance up, watching Jody, with her expressive brown eyes and mop of dusky-blond hair, energetically pace around the studio.

One of them, an elderly gent with a mop of untidy white hair, was ahead of the other two.

Dumping grounds for the uneducated hoi polloi, the jobless peasants, the Asians, the blacks, the Dominicans, the fodder that keeps our opulent society humming, the little people who kill the chickens and disembowel the cattle and pick the cotton and work in the sweatshops and wash the dishes, scrub the toilets, mop floors, and buy all the cigarettes.

While imbibing, he found several of the top sergeants of the tanker battalion and promised them invitations to a jungle juice party in order to ensure there would be no hassle with getting the drivers Junkman and Mop recruited in to sick call the next morning.

Dorel could do nothing but tow her along like a gray dust mop over the garden trail as Katana towed her.

Denisov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself with his handkerchief, sat down by Natasha and did not leave her for the rest of the evening.

Caine quickly mopped the co ners of his mouth, and then surreptitiously swiped the napkin ovt the cold sweat that had moistened his forehead.