“Despardieux, milor,” said the Chevalier, “if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon — what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Despardieux, milor," said the Chevalier, "if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a _torchon_ -- what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Gin ever he observes a proud professor, wha has mae than ordinary pretensions to a divine calling, and that reards and prays till the very howlets learn his preambles, that's the man Auld Simmie fixes on to mak a dishclout o '. ❋ James Hogg (1802)
Ay, man, we mak a dishclout o't, an 'we wring't, an' we wring't, an 'we wring't, an' the bree [163] o't washes a 'the lave o' our prayers.” ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)
Skinner took no part in it, till one minister remarked to him, “The great faut I hae to your prayer-book is that ye use the Lord's Prayer sae aften, ” ye juist mak a dishclout o't.” ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)
BELLO: SATIRICALLY By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. ❋ Sam Jordison (2009)
BELLO: (SATIRICALLY) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ride seems like eternity, it lapses off so gentle and smooth, and the landscape is so impressively similar: everywhere the plunging surf, the gray sand-hills, the dark cedars with foliage sliced off sharp and flat by the keen east wind -- their stems twisted like a dishclout or like the olives around Florence. ❋ Various (N/A)
Men would emerge from their rooms, fully dressed, with the dishclout in one hand and the hand-basin in the other -- on the way to their morning tub. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)
As he stood there, angry and waving a steaming dishclout, two Chows appeared. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
He has worn his shirt till it looks like a dishclout, he has torn it to rags! ❋ Unknown (1917)
Mrs. MacCall wiped her eyes, declaring that "such goings-on wrung the tears out o 'her jest like water out of a dishclout!" ❋ Grace Brooks Hill (1917)
BELLO: _ (Satirically) _ By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
In her anger she did not see the sloppy dishclout on the scullery chair, on which she sank exhausted by her rage. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)
'Yes,' said the girl, flushing scarlet, 'bean't it a dishclout?' ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
In about a week I was on foot again - but weak as a dishclout! ❋ Unknown (1883)
What I said was, do you know why three fokes, a rich man, a middling man, and a poor man, should want horses for Knollsea afore seven o'clock in the morning on a blinking day in Fall, when everything is as wet as a dishclout, whereas that's more than often happens in fine summer weather? ' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Such a torn dishclout of a dog thou never did see! ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
