wash-rag

No aching color of the sea and pride of supercilious people, but the reality of a round-bellied nickel alarm-clock on a shelf against a fuzzy unplaned pine wall, with a stiff gray wash-rag hanging above it and a kerosene-stove standing below.

Main Street 2004

He passed his hand over the brown wash-rag of a back.

The Great Gatsby 2003

For a moment he looked in doubt at the only apology for a wash-rag the shanty afforded.

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

She quietly opened one of the windows, and having resumed her seat, she pulled a wash-rag from her leather bag and began knitting calmly.

Hepsey Burke

Bathe moderately and gently in lukewarm water, using a wash-rag in preference to

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

After the meal was over, they repaired together to the parlor, and while Hepsey took out her wash-rag knitting and Maxwell smoked his cigar, Mrs. Betty gave Nickey her undivided attention.

Hepsey Burke

She rose triumphantly, as she knitted the last stitch of the wash-rag.

Hepsey Burke

You must neither dig the scalp with your nails nor wring out your hair as you would a wash-rag.

The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans

She seemed to find more stimulus for thought and more helpful diversion in the production of one wash-rag than most persons find in

Hepsey Burke

Teddy had never deserved this terrible fate, but he did not like the Cold Lairs, where his little crash wash-rag and his tiny toothbrush glimmered at him in the half-light, and where he always smelled the raw smell of the lemon his mother kept to whiten her hands.

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923