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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He passed his hand over the brown wash-rag of a back. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For a moment he looked in doubt at the only apology for a wash-rag the shanty afforded. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Bathe moderately and gently in lukewarm water, using a wash-rag in preference to ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She rose triumphantly, as she knitted the last stitch of the wash-rag. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

You must neither dig the scalp with your nails nor wring out your hair as you would a wash-rag. ❋ Helen Follett Stevans (N/A)

She seemed to find more stimulus for thought and more helpful diversion in the production of one wash-rag than most persons find in ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

I can't dry myself on a piece of soap and a wet wash-rag. ❋ Unknown (1922)

It is about the size of a thick wash-rag, and the puddler carries it in the hand that clasps the rabble rod where it is too hot for bare flesh to endure. ❋ Davis, James J (1922)

With joy he will come to see that living in a glow of health bears the same relation to merely not being sick that a plunge in the cold salt surf bears to using a tepid wash-rag in a hall bedroom. ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)

The best that can be said of two of them, is that they were a dirty gray, about the color of a much-used wash-rag. ❋ Unknown (1918)

"I can't lave it all to the Lord to do," she said, as she rubbed the soap on her little wash-rag. ❋ Nellie L. McClung (1912)

I think it must have been at about this time I dropped my shaving outfit, a wash-rag and my toothbrush out of the breast pocket of my blouse, and lost, presumably from under my arm, the small parcel containing my bedroom slippers and a garment intended for nightwear exclusively. ❋ Tony Sarg (1910)

In lack of a wash-rag you will find that a bunch of tall grass bent double makes an ideal swab. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

[Maybe] it's [a Drag Queen]! Or a Wash Rag Queen! ❋ Wash Rag Queen (2011)