Mix 1 cup of apple-cider vinegar into a tubful of bath water. From Wordnik.com. [Hints From Heloise] Reference
It would be very easy for him to do that, probably for a tubful of money. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2003] Reference
Hes a Briton, right now thats enough to get him into a tubful of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
This is just our second practice, Mr. Dayne says we're horrid as a tubful of castor oil. From Wordnik.com. [Pop Goes The Weasel]
She smiled briefly and indicated a small tubful of a crumbly mixture which stood beside the squat black stove. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sports]
Considering that we saw one man dispatch his whole tubful in two great draughts, the weakness was just as well. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
For the hardest water 1/4 pound of borax to a large tubful may be used; most waters, however, do not need so much. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
I myself succeeded in catching a tubful of water which ensured me a good wash and a refreshing sleep for the night. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
I think that even those of us not planning to cast a line this spring could use a good tubful of Fish House Punch these days. From Wordnik.com. [What America's Oldest Club May Quaff] Reference
A couple of teaspoonfuls of glycerine to a small tubful of water will soften the lather in which flannel pieces are to be washed. From Wordnik.com. [Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use] Reference
Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn by a whole tubful of relics of dead saints that when Edward died he would not stand in William's way. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
Wallowing in a tubful of hot water, prior to a small supper and a long sleep, she found it unbelievable that Targovi should imagine evil of these people. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
“Julietted”; and I was peeling a tubful of oranges — in the way the steward had showed me — to be sliced by Spanish Mary for breakfast next morning. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
This he recalleth was a woman black as night, with a red turban and a lapful of magnolias, and to one side red crabs in a basket, and to one side a tubful of lilies. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
But if you do what you intend, you'll find before the week's over that you've stepped into a whole tubful of scalding hot water, and you'll wish yourself well out of it again. '. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
The old woman got a tubful of warm water to wash the baby. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
Just use a scoop in a tubful of warm water for a relaxing soak. From Wordnik.com. [Blisstree] Reference
In the wool-shop, forty men have one tubful of warm water once a-week. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
For what Molly and her father ate was hardly to be counted in the tubful. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales] Reference
If you have a room with bath, dive into a blistering hot tubful and relax. From Wordnik.com. [I Married a Ranger] Reference
"Read 'em by the tubful if you like, but do the same as me -- don't believe 'em!". From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
In sitch a enormous tubful o 'lobsters, etceterer, it's a wonder we've met at all. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference
It was his luxurious custom to shave while sitting snugly in a tubful of hot water. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
She had been washing a great tubful of harsh greasy clothes -- overalls, shirts, drawers. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
For one I slay, you slay a score; and for one spoonful of blood I draw, you spill a tubful. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
At hand was a tubful of plaster, a trowel, and ladder which I thought long enough for my purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Can you imagine what it would be like to have lovely liquid sleep emptied on you by the warm tubful?. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Arden] Reference
Then they cracked big dishes of nuts; and popped corn that popped with the most resounding pops in all my experience -- popped a tubful, and. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
The people declared that they had more than a tubful of gold; and yet they went about very plainly dressed, in the coarsest stuffs, but always with splendidly clean linen. From Wordnik.com. [What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales] Reference
Not by the tubful; just an ordinary half dozen a day, and a dem climate thrown in. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference
A big tubful of feathers between them, and on the table a row of dead birds, which Leon had killed and brought in. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
Deucedly annoying to be drowned in this hole, amidst dirty water, like a tubful of ill -- washed potatoes -- ah. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Typical of Pitts, another tubful of tripe. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
"Swallowed a tubful.". From Wordnik.com. [A Man to His Mate] Reference
"Look, there's a tubful.". From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
"Had a tubful in the back. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference
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