Take care not to slop your washing-stand, or to lay a piece of wet soap upon it.
The fire pit is only about one-half of the stone surface, as the radiated heat keeps the rest of the stones hot, causing all dish and slop water to evaporate quickly.
This is so well known at sea that a skipper, who will not hesitate to sail from port with rotten or insufficient food for his men, will not dare take a chance without a full supply of tobacco in the slop chest.
But our slop chest was under water, and the tobacco utterly useless.
There are two kinds of buttonhole--the coarse for slop goods and the fine for gentlemanly wear.
In many other parts of the country, he wears no slop at all, but a corduroy or fustian jacket, with capacious pockets, and buttons of giant size.
And then, you see, when one is dead, one cares for nothing, and has no fear of "slop wages.
Last night she charmed a slop (as modest as a country girl) whose purity took up arms against the famous dance of the Storm-blown Tulip.
It is convenient to use the water-closet as a slop hopper.
The use of the water-closet as a slop sink is not only legitimate but desirable.
Put in a slop sink, and give it a trapped connection with the vault or sewer.
It provides a place to throw slop water, and brings hot and cold water close at hand.
Before a teacup was replenished, the remaining tea and dregs were emptied into the slop bowl.
The slop basin may also have been the receptacle for the mote or foreign particles--then inherent in tea but now extracted by mechanical means--that had to be skimmed off the beverage in the cup.
Often a medium-sized bowl, usually hemispherical in shape, is to be seen on the tea table, and it is most likely a slop bowl or basin.
The tea dregs might then be discarded in the slopbowl or left in the strainer and the strainer rested on the bowl.
Slop with 'fresh fig-leaves for Adam and Ere' was there; And the Royal Proclamation against Vice and Immorality was pasted up there.
When {208}Slop parted with his integrity, he lost his selfrespect.
It not only insured to him the name of SLOP for ever, but hastened what was neither intended nor anticipated, his dismissal from The Times.
Some slop shops in New York pay only fifteen cents for making a vest, and only ten cents for pantaloons!
All of the clothes sold in the slop shops of cities are made by women.
There are two kinds of tailoring--custom and slop work.
Some of the street sellers are blind, with having taxed their eyes too greatly in sewing for slop shops.
There are a great many women unable to sew well, who compete with each other for the work given out by the slop shops.
We have heard of someslop shops in large cities offering to pay the highest wages to good shirt makers, each applicant to take a shirt and make it for nothing, as a sample of her sewing.
The supply of labor has been greater than the demand, and hence the competition that has arisen among clothing merchants, and the low price of made clothing as sold in slop shops.
The guard came in to bring our breakfast and empty our slop pail, without any suspicion that any thing was wrong, but about ten o'clock the Sergeant came up with a guard, and commenced looking around as though in search of something.
We made up a plot with them to seize the Sergeant when he came in at night to empty their slop pail, lock him in the room, take the keys and unlock our door, and we would all leave at once.
But by far the majority were the cubicles where the Jewish slop sellers displayed their wares.
But now emerged the Jew slop seller, very voluble.
If it were molasses you could fill it half full of brads before it would slop over.
One of these latter fellows shouted at once: "About a half dozen and it'll slop over!
