There were three greasy frying pans in the sink, and the sink itself--He felt desperate.
Paul bounded upstairs, scrubbed the greasy odour of the dish-water from his hands with the ill-smelling soap he hated, and then shook over his fingers a few drops of violet water from the bottle he kept hidden in his drawer.
No; Tommy’s father had not seen Tommy for half a moon, and the smoke curled peacefully round Tommy’s father’s greasy head.
When ’lection-day comes round agen I won’t vote fur no candidate that don’t promise to coop all them greasy Micmacs up in a reservation, same es they do to Newfoundland.
A cap with a peak and a greasy green shade for the eyes suggested either precautions for disguise, or weak eyes, which was not unlikely in an old man.
The dining-room, badly kept by a single servant, had the sickening aspect of a country inn; everything looked greasy and unclean.
Sidney scanned the greasy bill-of-fare, while Slim inquired: "What have you?
Put that greasy thing away for a few minutes and listen to me," she said, sitting down opposite him.
The greasy thing cost forty guineas, and I wouldn't trust it to Jenkins after young Jimmy dropped it in a ditch.
His lordship had expostulated so often that, this time, he hoped to imprint the fact more strongly on the memory by dousing the untouched, greasy joint against his lacquey's brain.
And as one sees most fearful things In the crystal of a dream, We saw the greasy hempen rope Hooked to the blackened beam, And heard the prayer the hangman's snare Strangled into a scream.
Chrisfield stood, feeling warm and important, filling his mouth with soft greasy potatoes and gravy, while men about him asked him questions.
It smelt of rancid grease and coffee grounds and greasy juice trickled over their fingers as they struggled with it.
He thought of the company lined up for mess, and the smell of greasy food that came from the field-kitchen.
He sat at the dark greasy bench and took a gulp of the scalding coffee that smelt vaguely of dish rags.
Andrews sat down with his bottle and his papers, pushing away the broken plates full of stale food to make a place on the greasy table.
She does not notice the bits of hay clinging to the smockfrock, the greasy hat and begrimed face, or the clumsy boots thickly coated with mud.
Before being coated, the plate should necessarily be cleaned free from oxidation and greasy matters.
He was dressed in a greasyflannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging.
On all sides appeared the greasy stains of hands; the walls, whilst awaiting the painter and gilder, had been smeared with repulsive filth.
And fumbling in the pocket of her too scanty and dingy petticoat, she produced a photographic portrait of a soldier, enclosed in half-a-dozen greasy letters.
He was wearing his stiff, greasy leather apron, a dirty shirt, and fresh coal dust had already settled in his tangled curly hair.
There's such things as greasy sticks that go up with a loud noise and leave holes.
And the halls and stairs of the tenement where she lived were black with London smoke and greasy with London dirt.
The sun grew steadily hotter, the lower half of Harding's body was scorched by the furnace, and the perspiration dripped from his forehead upon his greasy overalls, but he held on until noon, with the steam gradually going down.
He came to the step of the buck-board, dressed in greasy overalls, with an oil smear on his hand, but she felt that he was to be trusted as she gave him an approving glance.
At supper time he came home in very greasy overalls, looking tired, but as soon as the meal was finished he took out some papers, and now, at last, he laid down his pen and sat with knitted brows and clenched hand.
Fastidiously neat in dress, with long riding gloves and a spotless gray hat, he formed a marked contrast to the big, greasyman sprinkled with soot from the engine.
There, before a lamp, a footman was sleeping, stretched out in a dirty greasy dressing-gown.
Christmas dinner in a greasy Sydney sixpenny restaurant, that opened a few days before with brass band going at full blast at the door by way of advertisement.
The landlord of the inn was a Jew, of course,--a lean old man with greasy ear locks and a long beard, above which his hooked nose looked like the beak of a dejected eagle.
He had once seen a pack of greasy "playing-cards," and it seemed to him to contain the quintessence of sin.
John might be deep in the excitement of a bear story, or be hard at writing a "composition" on his greasy slate; but whatever he was doing, he was the only one who could always be interrupted.
A grizzly beggar hobbled up, and held out his greasy cap.
I looked close and could see a greasy splotch when it was held sidewise in the light.
You ought to have seen that boy try to climb the greasy pole just now.
About a mile up the road we came across our artilleryman sitting very stiffly on the edge of a culvert with a greasy handkerchief on his knees.
A young bee crawled up the greasy trampled alighting-board.
