Honey and borax used as a mouth wash orswabbing is excellent.
You can use this for a baby by swabbing the mouth, and I have known some mothers to throw in a small piece of alum making it stronger for an older person.
The gunner's mate, one of those men who love to keep a gun in shape, was swabbing it out at the time, and they never saw anything of him again.
They had been slushed down with vaseline to keep the salt-water rust off; now they were swabbing the grease off.
An effective swabbing implement, having a plate of gutta-percha fitted at the end of a broom handle.
Green hands, or worn seamen, in former times stationed in the waist in working the ship, as they had little else of duty but hoisting and swabbing the decks.
I woke thinking I heard the usual swabbing of decks beginning, but this was incorrect.
If possible even swabbing of the foreign body should be avoided by swabbing out the bronchus, when necessary, before the region of the intruder is reached.
Ropes andswabbing and pullin' a oar or setting of a sail's more in my line, mate.
The amount of swabbingrequired with the swabbing solution can be determined only by experience assisted by the color of the patches of cloth.
If swabbing solution or standard metal fouling solution is not available=, the barrel should be scrubbed as already described, with the soda solution, dried, and oiled with a light oil.
If no metal fouling is in evidence, then swab out with the swabbing solution.
The amount of swabbing required with theswabbing solution can be determined only by experience, assisted by the color of the patches.
The swabbing solution should always be used, if available, for it must be remembered that each puff when the bore "sweats" is an incipient rust pit.
Swabbing should be continued, however, as long as the wiping patch is discolored by a bluish-green stain.
The sky and sea were grey enough when we were swabbing the decks in the early morning; as the day wore on, they only took the deeper tints of gathering clouds which hid the sun.
He don't have to get himself killed doin' it," snarled McFluke, swabbing down the bar.
When their hands had encircled the glasses for the third time, Racey, instead of drinking, suddenly looked across the bar at McFluke who was industriously swabbing the bar top.
The town folks tiptoed away, the men looking solemn but glad, and the women swabbing their deadlights and saying how affecting 'twas, and so on.
That is, in the customary swabbing of the naso-pharynx, we touch a point that controls the whole group of symptoms of the eyes, nose, and throat.
Swabbing down decks as best we could without landing, we pushed ahead.
Pretty soon we come to a nice innocent-looking young country jake setting on a log swabbing the sweat off of his face, for it was powerful warm weather; and he had a couple of big carpet-bags by him.
He had stolen on deck some time after midnight for a breath of air, risking detection, and from the shelter of a secluded corner well aft had heard the two men swabbing the deck below.
I can only add, Captain, that I am ready and willing to do anything from swabbing floors on the upper deck to passing coal at the bottom of the ship.
Other results of swabbing various parts of the throat before and after the use of Formamint, reported by these investigators, show enormous reductions in the count, claimed to be due to the action of Formamint.
It must be noted, however, that they state that the mouth and fauces must first be thoroughly cleansed by swabbing and douching before Formamint is used.
I beg pardon, sir; I've been scouring and swabbing out the boat 'smorning in case you and the luff-tenant wanted to go for a sail.
The skipper stared at him blankly, meanwhile swabbing at his burns with oiled waste.
Barry, swabbing away at his throat, which still bled.
Liosha, we were given to understand, besides helping in the galley and the cabin and swabbing decks, found much delight in painting the ship's boats with paint which Jaffery had bought for the purpose at Bordeaux.
A separate piece of cotton is used for each eye and the swabbing is done from the nose outward.
The nose, throat, and ears receive daily care--sprays to the nose and gargles to the throat, as well as special swabbing to the tonsils.
The buttocks require a gentle swabbing and thoroughgoing "patting dry" after each soiling or wetting of the diaper, but no soap is required in this region but once a day, and even then it should be used sparingly.
Usually while swabbing the oven the atmosphere in the oven is thick with dust and if the damper were closed this dust would settle on the hearth; but by keeping the damper open during this period most of the dust is drawn into the flue.
While swabbing the oven you raise considerable dust, therefore it is necessary that the damper should be open to allow the dust to pass into the flue.
Pa yelled and talked profane, and told 'em to bring a cannon and kill the elephant, which kept ducking him with his trunk, and swabbing out the bottom of the fountain basin with pa.
The Elephant kept Ducking Pa and Swabbing Out the Bottom of the Fountain.
Illustration: The Elephant Kept Ducking Pa andSwabbing Out the Bottom of the Fountain.
