How do you expect me to sponge your vest when you're wriggling around in that way?
Every strap and buckle was depicted with rare fidelity; there was no doubt at all of the sponge and bottle on the stool beside him, or the cloth in his hand.
Do not scrub them as you would a greasy floor, and utterly destroy the perfect set of the feathers, but sponge them with the grain, as far as possible, treating them as a compact layer.
Owing to the extreme scarcity of sponge collections, very few persons know how great a variety of forms, and what really remarkable forms, exist no farther from home than the waters that wash the coast of our own beloved Florida.
If a freshly killed bird has blood upon its plumage, separate the bloody feathers from the others, lift them on your fingers, and with warm water and a sponge gently sponge them off.
If the white poison shows on the hair, take a sponge, and with either hot water or alcohol sponge off the surface of the hair, leaving all the unseen poison undisturbed.
Soak them in fresh water for a short time to macerate the soft matter, then wash it out in salt water, and keep this up until the sponge is at last clean.
The last thing at this stage is to mix together equal quantities of white varnish and turpentine, sponge off the fish carefully, removing every particle of clay, tow, or dirt, and varnish it all over.
The sponge of commerce, and the "cleaned" sponge of the museum collection is, like a branch of coral, merely the skeleton of the living aggregation.
A live sponge is simply a vast colony of protozoan animals, each member of which lives an independent existence, but all are at the same time mutually dependent upon each other.
A large sponge is filled with water at a temperature of from 40° to 60° F.
There are a very few children who do not take kindly to either the cold spongeor plunge.
I'm going to take some crumbs out to that cheerful little bird," and kind Uncle Lucky sprinkled sponge cake crumbs all over the porch, and the sparrow and her little birdies had a scrumptious feast.
There he came upon the Doctor busy over one poor wounded fellow whose head was resting upon the arm of a kneeling woman, who held a sponge in the hand at liberty, while a great brass lotah of water was at her side.
The celebrated "Kentish Rag" and the sponge gravels of Farringdon are of this age.
In Codium Bursa the filamentous frond is spherical and hollow, presenting more the appearance of a round sponge or puff-ball than a sea-weed, and is somewhat rare.
His matutinal cold water spongewas a thing he would have missed dreadfully.
That earnest humble little speech of hers did not sponge away the look from his face.
It will be remembered that from this locality comes the principal supply of coarse sponge for Europe and America.
The sponge fishermen have several hundred boats regularly licensed, and measuring on an average twenty tons each.
I know, because he said he'd been travelling all day, and he asked me to spongeit for him.
It was an india-rubber one, Sir; they sponge off quite clean, and save the laundry bill, Sir.
I sponge them over and over again with iced water and eau de Cologne, gently and very slowly.
The only thing he wants you to do for him is to sponge his hands and face with iced water and to give him little bits of ice to suck.
Sponge and press and darn as Hermie might, it still looked disreputable; the shirts were ragged, there was no hat that was not hopelessly spoiled with the sun and dust and rain.
And as a spongeis chased round the bath-tub by the hand of the bather, so were the Afghans chased till they broke into little detachments much more difficult to dispose of than large masses.
It detached the enemy from his base as a sponge is torn from a rock, and left him ringed about with fire in that pitiless plain.
I ordered a sponge and some water at once, and bathed his fore paws, which were terribly cut; then remembering the Inspector, I sent Idols for some arnica.
He plunged out of bed and, gathering up towel andsponge and soap, made his descent on the bathroom.
The last time he came through very nicely, though, and when I came to I was on my back and the trainer was trying to drown me with a sponge full of water.
By half-past six the nearly empty trunk was pushed out of sight in the closet, his few toilet things decorated the marble top of the bureau, sponge and toothbrush reposed on the washstand and, in short, he was settled.
After the sponge had been thrown up by McCool, Hogan stepped up to Allen and said: "If you whip me as easily as you have this man, I will stand a champagne supper for you and all your friends.
All our secretions must flow freely to make health possible; therefore, the constant use of the sponge and the bath is necessary to our very existence.
I gave directions, to be followed in my absence, having first myself performed one operation, during which I permitted the cold water from the sponge to drip from time to time along the spine.
The aged also will find great benefit from it, and from a careful and gentle exercise of their muscles and the constant use of the sponge and cold water.
The bath and sponge form a primary element of physical culture, for without them the proper training of our muscles becomes utterly impossible.
His flesh, through the constant use of the sponge and proper exercise, is at once as fine as silk and as firm as steel.
No man can perform with ease any great amount of mental labor where physical culture has been neglected, or who does not use the spongefreely and indulge daily in the proper amount of physical exercise.
Don't forget to sponge and press those suits, and hurry up about it," he ordered roughly.
The Bearcat had been propped up in a chair, and his seconds were squirting water over him, employing a large sponge for the purpose.
I'll keep a basin of cold water near me and sponge you whenever you wink an eyelid.
She is sound asleep," pursued Antonia, "and I propose to use the wet sponge with effect.
Antonia filled the sponge with cold water, and, standing at the foot of the bed, dashed it at Susy.
The plates are all formed as positive plates first and then all that are intended for negative plates are reversed, the peroxide being changed into sponge lead.
A sufficient amount of lead peroxide and sponge lead must be retained on the plates to reduce this resistance, otherwise the charging current cannot flow through the active material and regenerate the battery.
The balloon by now had many holes burned in it, and using my sponge I cried that we must descend.
No worries of any kind were on his mind as, carrying sponge and towel, scented soap and a bottle of Scrubb's ammonia, he travelled amiably across the deserted, shining corridor to the bathroom.
His dry sponge fell, and bounded till it settled, rolling close beneath the horribly attractive object facing him.
I did not see the trick performed of striking the arm and making the blood issue; but it seems to me that a small sponge filled with ruddle and concealed in the striking hand, would be enough to accomplish the prodigy.
When I was a boy, I often made wine come out of a knife or of my finger, by pressing a small sponge full of the liquor which I concealed in my hand.
If it's you, I shall sponge on you for life, so don't imagine you will have all the fun to yourself.
I'd honestly rather it were yours, dear; then I could come and sponge upon you as often as I liked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sponge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
