It is frequently the practice in the navy on Sundays to muster clothes at divisions, and to take a list of what slops are required by the men to complete their kit, or stock of worldly goods.
He then collects the different memorandums ofslops wanted, and proceeds to make his report to the captain, who either sanctions or disapproves of the decision of the officer, as he pleases.
While the rest of us considered the slops we heard him calling for the steward, who had not yet appeared, and we asked him if we could be of assistance.
None of us thought about the slop pail under the bowl, and when it had been filled the slops ran over and flooded the floor, whereat my seasick room-mate groaned in anguish and swore feebly in French.
Publicly Skippy stood pledged to this uncompromising defiance of the Powers That Be, so withSlops Barnett's accusing glance on him, he answered hastily: "I caught an awful cold and got to steam it out!
Slops paused in his hauling and reeving to shake a fist at Solomon.
An insulting word from the latter, a quick blow from Solomon, andSlops went through the gate out into the air and downward.
Sailors' slops could be procured almost anywhere, and no questions asked.
All slops and waste matters from the body should be put where they cannot reach our drinking water, and where flies cannot crawl over them (p.
Slops from our houses are often full of the germs.
In cities the slops are poured into large pipes and tunnels underground.
A great many disease germs leave the body through the intestine and kidneys, and may be found in the slops and waste water of our houses.
Slops from the house should not be poured out at the back door, but they should be carried away from the house.
But sometimes slops from the house, and water from the barn yard, soak through the soil until the sand is full.
Slops are dangerous to health, for they may run into a well, or spring, or river, and so carry disease germs into our drinking water (p.
Experimenting upon this point, I have found that stagnant slops become, as a rule, offensive within 24 hours, even when exposed to the air.
When it is feasible, it is advisable to allow different varieties of slops to flow in separate gutters.
This is a point too much neglected by architects, who are very prone to carefully put all waste pipes below ground level, so that any purification of slops without pumping is impossible.
When I am told that it is of little use to deal with solid excreta, because the liquid household slops alone are as foul and difficult to treat as the complete mixture, I confess I am incredulous.
A system of sewers is necessary for the slop-water, and it is not easier to treat slop-water alone than it is to treat a mixture of slops and excrement.
Again, it must be remembered that the house with the greatest amount of slops has, as a rule, the largest curtilage.
I do not think the slops in this case have ever travelled as much as six feet, and there is no evidence that a drop of slop-water has ever touched the rivulet.
The suspended matters in these slops (soapsuds chiefly) are in such a fine state of division that they easily filter.
The jars containing slops should be rinsed in cold water, washed out in warm soap suds, dried, and aired.
The daily care includes airing the room and its closets, airing and making the bed, dusting, removing lint and threads from the floor, and removing slops and bringing fresh water if bathing apparatus is in the room.
Poor Fanny had very little fun of her visit, having been most of the time on a diet of maltine and slops - and this while the rest of us were rioting on oysters and mushrooms.
This is necessary because of the elevation in body temperature resulting from the inability of the animal to digest heavy feeds, kitchen slops and sour milk.
Spoiled roots, grains and silage, mouldy, dirty roughage and decomposed slops should not be fed to live stock.
His hair is long, and bushed behind; his tights are in two colours, and he wears an eighteen-penny pair of black leather slops or shoes.
Should he take him by the ears and rub his face in the liquor-slops on the bar, or should he merely put him on the ground and wipe his feet on him?
Ye stop out of it all this time," he said, "an' when ye come ye squall enough to bring the slops from Arbour Square!
Slops were flung out of a back window, and kitchen refuse went the same way, or was taken to the river stairs and turned out, either into the water or on the foreshore, as the tide might chance.
Women and children were to receive the usual proportion, and a certain quantity of slops was directed to be issued to the male and female convicts who came out in the Surprise transport, they being very much in want of clothing.
In the beginning of this month a very liberal allowance of slops was served to the prisoners male and female.
A distinction was made in the articles of the slopsserved to watchmen and overseers, each receiving one coat instead of a jacket, one pair of duck trousers instead of a pair of breeches, and one pair of shoes.
A large number of slops having been prepared, a frock, shirt, and trousers, were served out to each male convict at Sydney and the interior settlements.
Slops were served to the convicts during this month, and the detachment received the remainder of the shoes which they brought from England.
On the 29th, a liberal allowance of slops was issued to the male and female convicts in the different settlements, among which were some soap to the men, and some thread, tape, and soap to the women.
The female convicts were employed in making the slops for the men, which had been now sent out unmade.
The prisoner is found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of one dollar, or pack out the slops for a week!
You will throw slops on the floor and not half clean 'em up!
In Denver, Colorado, in 1908 fifty persons were made sick with the fever by flies which fed on the slops from a sick room and then crawled around in the milk cans from which those who became sick used milk.
This sewer carries slops from the houses of the sick and well and empties into a stream used below for drinking water.
Why should we be careful with theslops from the sick room?
This is why the spit and all slops from the sick room should be burned, buried, or destroyed in some way.
It is just as wrong to turn loose the germs of the sick by throwing the spit and the slops where they will get into a stream or where the flies may find them and by soiling their feet leave death in their trail wherever they crawl.
Howsomever, I'm jest coming round a bit, thanks to warm slops and QyNine.
Martin, however, rather than see this wretched man in such a loathsome predicament, said he would empty the man's slops himself, and did so.
A warder emptying a prisoner's slops is, of course, against the rules, but Martin did this act of kindness to the man out of the simple humanity of his nature, and the man was naturally most grateful.
Mississippi water thick with the filth of the great valley of the West, with slime from the Cincinnati slaughter-houses, sweepings from the streets, slops from the steamboats, with all the miasma and mould of the forests?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
