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  • Cool compresses or cool packs wrapped in a dish-cloth may provide comfort before and after nursing.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Cool compresses or cool packs wrapped in a dish-cloth may provide comfort before and after nursing.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • You could see he was sorry the minute he said it, he folded like a wet dish-cloth and went off the stage.

    The Really Incredibly Clueless Opinion Column of the Day… « Whatever 2006

  • And she put a dish-cloth under his head, and kissed him, and ran away again.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Miriam stood gawking while Miss Kew lashed up a dish-cloth around him so it come out pants.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • The door opened, and a small, slim, fair-haired woman, garbed not in a dressing-gown but in a kind of overall, and holding a dish-cloth, stood looking at them with wide blue eyes.

    Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • Next he washed up his own glass and put it back in the cupboard, holding the dish-cloth in front of the gas fire for a second until the damp stain had evaporated.

    A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963

  • "I will," was her serene answer as she wrung out the dish-cloth.

    Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

  • Miriam stood gawking while Miss Kew lashed up a dish-cloth around him so it come out pants.

    More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953

  • Yo'll tak 'th' dish and put it into th 'hot waiter, and then tak' dish-cloth and rub it raand and raand, insoide and aatsoide, till it's clean, and then yo'll wipe it wi 'a clean towel, and mak' it look just loike a bron new dish; and that's haa th 'Lord does wi' a poor sinner: He gies him a plunge into th '

    Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell

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