"Wash up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on her blanket coat. "If you can stay that long, I'll be back soon after it's light," she said. Then she turned to Sproatly. "You can wash up those dishes on the table, and get a brush and sweep this room out. If it's not quite smart to-morrow you'll do ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... mountain torrents, the sea, just as the Sagalie Tyee made them. Their virtues die when human beings try to improve them by heating or distilling, or placing even tea in them, and so—what makes Homolsom Rock so full of 'good medicine' is that the waters that wash up about it are straight from the sea, made by the hand of the Great Tyee, and unspoiled ...
— Legends of Vancouver • E. Pauline Johnson
... Margery, "she used to skim the cream for me, most mornings, when I'd be busy; and wash up ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... Four men inhabited the hut, and their life appears a kind of mixture of that of a dog and that of an emperor, with a considerable predominance of the latter. They have no cook, and take it turn and turn to cook and wash up, two one week, and two the next. They have a good garden, and gave us a capital feed of potatoes and peas, both fried together, an excellent combination. Their culinary apparatus and plates, cups, knives, and forks, are very limited in number. ...
— A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Samuel Butler
... know it," replied Arthur. "We'd better lie low, and help wash up the plates, and when they're gone we can go for a spin up ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed
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