Snatching up histowel and sponge bag, the stranger made a rush for the creek bank, where a rude stage permitted him to indulge in a copious sluicing of his head, neck and shoulders.
I went down like a log, and when I came to myself I was lyin' on this bed, lashed hand and foot, and with a towel tied so tight over my face that I could hardly breathe.
A towel was tied over the face of the helpless form, and from behind this towelcame the labored breathing which had already attracted attention.
On their arrival in the covered passage of the reception-hall, they espied two young waiting-maids; the one with a small basin in her hand; the other with a towel thrown over her arm.
An old nurse speedily fetched a towel and wiped them for her, when the doctor set to work and felt her pulse for a while, after which he rose and walked into the outer chamber.
He sent for his child to see this wonderful material, and when he arrived the towel was placed on the youth's back as if it were a shawl.
Ranse met him with a piece of soap and a coarse towel in his hands.
But when he staggered to his feet his first move was to find his soap and towel and start for the /charco/.
Upon this was spread a cloth which from appearance might have been as long in use as the towel in the barroom.
Perhaps, too, you wonder why she was so anxious for the towel doll to have eyes.
Then her mother understood that her daughter wanted the doll to have eyes; so she sewed the beads firmly to the towel and the little girl was happy.
A clean checked towel would be laid over the rising, snowy mound of dough; the bubbling oatmeal was locked in the fireless cooker, doors were bolted, window shades drawn.
No two of you keep house alike, and you jump on the girl the instant she hangs a dish towelup the way you don't.
When the children went home, mamma had a towelneatly folded and begun for Maggie.
Mamma," said Bessie, as her mother handed back thetowel to Maggie to make a fresh beginning, "could not I learn to sew?
I think we will take half of one side of a towel for each day's task.
Maggie's "towel task," as she called it, was done later in the day whenever her mamma had time to attend to her.
Elise stood behind him, lost in admiration, and giving an imbecile flap now and then with a towel to anything that happened to come in front of her.
In ten minutes he was racing bareheaded past Colinette and La Forge towards Les Lâches, a towel round his neck and Punch bounding silently by his side.
The salt water was still in his hair, and the discrepancies in his hasty attire were but partly hidden by the damp towel round his neck.
He turned off the water, wrapped a towel around himself, and exited.
His was a naked mind, like that of his body, except that his body was wrapped loosely in a used mildewed towel and his mind in a bawdy numbness which he labeled the void.
So arly in the morning I put a clean white towel on the leetle table in my office.
He pitched the wet towel on top of her hat and cape, and standing firm in the exact centre of a square of sunlight he began to do his exercises.
No, I can do it myself," he answered, snatching the towel from her hand.
It isn't dirty, I should think," and dipping a corner of the towel in the water he began to dab himself all over with it cautiously as if he was afraid of rubbing off his skin.
Birkin suddenly appeared in the doorway, in white pyjamas and wet hair, and a towelover his arm.
Then she recovered, turned, and came for towel and sponge.
The towel was a rich shade of brown by the time it reached our party.
Betty thoughtfully, as she collected Kitty's sponge and bath-towel before departing to the bathroom.
Kitty declared she could have done it in that time, if Dan had not had possession of the bathroom, and Betty had not used her bath-towel and left it so wet that no one else could possibly use it.
There was the crocheted toweland the hand-embroidered dressing-sack slipped back all safe into Mis’ Holcomb’s shopping-bag!
Towel with crochet work set in each end and no initial,” she says.
The next day my improvised headgear of a towel proved inadequate, and I went down with an awful attack of sunstroke.
One undresses and wraps oneself up in a towel and shuffles in clogs into other rooms where hot water pours from a jet.
Of course your towel or napkin must be put on something that may be locked up, so that its folds shall not be disturbed till you have finished.
I wonder if the author of the popular novel has ever tried working with a wet towel round his or her head: I have.
Maybe, if the towel is not quite up to its work, he will help things on by drinking gallons of strong tea.
In darkness and in misery, you struggle to get your head out of a clammy towel that clings to you almost with passion.
I used to believe in that wet towel and that strong tea.
Until you have finally flung thetowel out of the window and rubbed yourself dry, work is impossible.
To carry about a wet towel twisted round one's head needs a trained acrobat.
The tea and the towelcombined are irresistible: the result is always the senior wranglership.
And now for breakfast," said the young lady in white, as she dashed up the sands, with raincoat flying and towel fluttering in the breeze.
In the morning Anne slept soundly, but Judy slipped out of bed early, put on her bathing-suit and a raincoat, and with a towel in her hand went down-stairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
