Washstand item

Usage examples of soap.

His soap had hardly stiffened afore it ran right back to lye and grease agin.

Hardfaced men--the agitators who had been prominent in the trouble from the first--mounted soap boxes at street corners, and began to label Aunt Nora as a sinister woman, and Doc Savage a murderer and worse.

Instead, she had faked a histrionic attack of amnesia, like something right out of a soap opera.

The room, explained counsel, had been washed out with soft soap which possessed an arsenical base.

Mama and Babushka brought the canned goods, the cereals and the grains, soap and salt and vodka into the rooms, stacking it all in the corners and in the hallway behind the sofa.

Madam Rose had included a bar of rose-scented soap in the bandbox she had made up for Clary, but Clary thought after a day in the fields she would need something stronger.

The bather had no soap, but used rough fibre gloves with which he rubbed the surface of his skin until it glowed.

When the signal came, Bibbs went to the office, where he divested himself of his overalls--his single divergence from the routine of his fellow-workmen--and after that he used soap and water copiously.

I said bitchily, knowing it came out sounding like a bit of bad dialogue from a day-time soap but not caring.

This dye-stuff produces bluer shades of black than either B or B B, and they are faster to soaping.

Some had nothing on them but bits of shaving soap, but there were wet snots and big boogies in some of the others, he could smell their enticing aroma even now.

Now the tub was gone and if any water spots or soap had landed on that gleaming, golden oak floor, someone had very carefully buffed the marks away.

When Centaine had caught them at it, she had scrubbed him in a scalding tub of Lysol and carbolic soap that had taken the skin off his most tender parts.

If greased with soap or pomatum, it will slip into the front of a cunny with ease.

The sky was full of dodecahedral frameworks, triangular faces glimmering, drifting like angular soap bubbles.