There were, in chief, a basin and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of yellow soap in a tray, a tooth-brush, a rat-tailed shaving brush, one huckaback towel, and one or two other minor articles. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. ❋ Youareokok (2004)
Many a case of typhoid fever can be traced to the cook's slop-pail, or closets, or sink, and no lady should be careless of looking into all these places. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
One day she came upon him standing before her wardrobe, feeling in the pockets of her dresses, and on another occasion she discovered him unawares in her bedroom, picking little scraps of paper out of the slop-pail and piecing them together to see what she had been writing. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
The tiny bowls and pitchers that furnish an ordinary German washstand, and the absence of slop-pail and foot-bath, are sufficient proof that only partial ablutions are expected to be performed in the bed-chamber; while the lack of a bath-room in even genteel houses, and the smallness and rarity of bathing establishments, show that the practice is by no means frequent or general among the better classes. ❋ Various (N/A)
He used to forget to empty the chief's slop-pail, and the water would overflow the cabin. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
Iván entered, sullen and cross; threw the cat down from the bench, and scolded the women for putting the slop-pail in the wrong place. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Sophist -- drenched with that woman's slop-pail of words and blinded for the moment, received his portion of mutton and drew aside, vanquished amid peals of laughter, of which he guessed only from its note that the allusion had been disgusting. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
This is convenient, as the whole of the ground beneath the house can thus be used as a slop-pail, waste-basket, and rubbish heap. ❋ Hugh Charles Clifford (1903)
"Yes, miss," said Maggie, quite close, coming out of Mr. Povey's chamber with a slop-pail. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
There are more than a dozen floating about the garden now, besides hen-coops, boxes, bottles, oranges, and all manner of household articles, including a slop-pail. ❋ Unknown (1891)
The amateur strategist imagines that you can discharge an army out of a fleet of transports and freight-ships just anywhere and as easily as you can empty a slop-pail. ❋ Unknown (1893)
The old woman carried a slop-pail, which she nearly dropped, so surprised was she to find ❋ Unknown (1892)
French realism does not stop at the tin pan, but must deal with the slop-pail and the wash-tub as if it were literally true that ❋ Holmes, Oliver W (1891)
There were fine manly smells of the pigsty and the open drain, and these prided themselves on being all they seemed to be; but there were also feminine odours, masquerading as you knew not what, in which penny whiffs, vials of balm and opoponax, seemed to have become tainted, vaguely, with the residue of the slop-pail. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
Our nurse had told her my dislike to this form of nourishment, adding that every morning I emptied the panade into the slop-pail. ❋ Sarah Bernhardt (1884)
And now that slop-pail in which the cigarette ends were swimming looked incredibly disgusting. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
Crumpled bed-clothes, pillows thrown about, books, clothes, a big filthy slop-pail filled with soap-suds in which cigarette ends were swimming, and the litter on the floor -- all seemed as though purposely jumbled together in one confusion .... ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
On the unwashed floor a heap of straw covered with dirty bedtick for a bed; a foul-smelling slop-pail in the middle of the room; a crazy stove, and back of it a door or gap opening upon darkness. ❋ Unknown (1881)
