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Examples
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She did not even look at the little lad who lay stricken on the sidewalk, but slammed the door and went back to her wash-tub.
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Viewed honestly, the wash-tub incident -- the only evidence brought forward -- was a laughable little affair, portraying how the simple courtesy of a gentleman might be misunderstood by a mad boor of a husband.
CHAPTER 28 2010
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His sister lifted a flushed face from the wash-tub and looked at him.
Chapter 5 2010
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The wife assisted him in the details of business, darned his hose, drudged at the wash-tub, took care of other people's children for hire, and generously gave him whatever money she earned and could spare beyond her actual expenses.
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The first witnesses were two Swedes, who told of the wash-tub incident, when Borg had given way to one of his fits of anger.
CHAPTER 28 2010
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The new wooden wash-tub which is ready in the nearby town of Hermagor will be brought immediately.
Work Camp 10511 GW 2010
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He acknowledged the wash-tub incident, caused, he explained, by an act of simple courtesy on his part and by John Borg's unreasoning anger.
CHAPTER 28 2010
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He has covered the roof and walls with tin and canvas, so arranged that all the melting ice goes the same way, and runs into a wash-tub that stands below.
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'O, I have got a sixpence!' cried one; 'and I've got a shilling!' said another; while the mother of the little tribe came from her wash-tub, and called out, 'God bless your ladyship!' and the father quitted a little garden at the side of his cottage, to bow down to the ground, and cry,
Camilla 2008
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'Lord, miss – I don't know your name, – how your poor hat is all I don't know how! as limp, and as flimzy, as if it had been in a wash-tub!'
Camilla 2008
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