"Dishwater" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said to her, in an aside "You surely will not do that before Jack and Grey; besides, so much dishwater will spoil your hands, which ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... ain' no cawfy," grumbled Aunt Pony, taking the boiler from the crane; "hit ain' nuttin' but dishwater, I don' cyar who done made hit." Then, as the door opened to admit Uncle Isam with a bucket from the spring, she divided her scorn equally between him and ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... him before they had time to forgive him. Way they had of disciplining him—when he'd go on a big tear they'd fire him for a few days and then take him back. But they can't git him now—not if I can help it. A better cook never throwed dishwater over a guy-rope than that same old Mose, but—" He stopped and looked at Ford hesitantly. "Say! I hate like the deuce to tie a string on you as soon as you hit the ranch, Ford, but—if you've got anything along, you won't spring it on Mose, will you? ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower |
