She has issued underclothes all around from the slop-chest, and is ordering them to take a bath in the rain-water just caught. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I helped myself also to blankets, mittens, oilskins, caps, and such things, from the slop-chest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I got out a heavy shirt, new from the slop-chest and made from blanket goods. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The slop-chest is a sort of miniature dry-goods store which is carried by all sealing schooners and which is stocked with articles peculiar to the needs of the sailors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The slop-chest, as well as the provisions, was stored in the lazarette, and I took advantage of the opportunity to lay in a stock of underclothing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Into this hallway, from the port side, opened five rooms: first, on entering, the mate's; next, the two state-rooms which had been knocked into one for me; then the steward's room; and, adjoining his, completing the row, a state-room which was used for the slop-chest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We still keep our old quarters, and she has bedded the new-comers in the big after-room with blankets issued from the slop-chest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Johnson, it seems, bought a suit of oilskins from the slop-chest and found them to be of greatly inferior quality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We ate the food on the road and threw the basket into the stream; but we kept the other things, I liking the staff for walking and she delighted with her shawl, which relieved the masculine severity of her slop-chest clothes. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)
Nearly all had bills on the slop-chest for tobacco or clothes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Beside this, having begun the voyage with very few clothes, he had taken up the greater part of his wages in the slop-chest, and it was every day a losing concern to him; and, like all the rest of the crew, he had a hearty hatred of California, and the prospect of eighteen months or two years more of hide-droghing seemed completely to break down his spirit. ❋ Unknown (1909)
This figure of fun, this man made from the slop-chest, this caricature of a scarecrow, had been put forth by heavy-handed facetiousness to the post of greatest honour. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
"Do you know what happens to men who say what you've said about my slop-chest and me?" ❋ Unknown (1904)
But of Johnson's grumbling at the slop-chest I knew nothing, so that what I witnessed came with the shock of sudden surprise. ❋ Unknown (1904)
