rag

• Some time to-morrow night wet a rag, and press it on Sparwick's face while he is sleeping. —  The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger
• I'll wet a rag and wrap the dipper in that and set it in the window where the wind will blow on it Will that make it keep cool Yes, as long as the rag is wet. —  At the Little Brown House
• She, therefore, ought always to dry the nipple, not by rubbing, but by dabbing it with a soft cambric or lawn handkerchief, or with a piece of soft linen rag--one or the other of which ought always to be at hand--every time directly after the child has done sucking, and just before applying any of the following powders or lotions to the nipple 3. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• Pearl lay there under the clothes as limp as a rag, and the main boom of the Minnie Williams_, which as we know was the thing behind it all, urged the stove forward until it was in square contact with the foot of the bed Now if there was one thing on which Pearl Higgins prided herself it was her bed. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• The gun or pistol is then (uncharged) placed with the cone directly over and near the rag, and a cap exploded, which will invariably ignite it. —  The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

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