mottled-soap

His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s academy upon what are called ‘mutual principles”—that is to say, the expenses of his board and schooling were defrayed by his father in goods, not money; and he stood there—almost at the bottom of the school—in his scraggy corduroys and jacket, through the seams of which his great big bones were bursting—as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings of the establishment), and other commodities.

V. Dobbin of Ours 1917

Dr. Swishtail's academy upon what are called "mutual principles" -- that is to say, the expenses of his board and schooling were defrayed by his father in goods, not money; and he stood there -- most at the bottom of the school -- in his scraggy corduroys and jacket, through the seams of which his great big bones were bursting -- as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings of the establishment), and other commodities.

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837