The oleanders in the big greentubs looked wilted though abundantly watered that morning.
Once he stopped, and planting his cane far out in the grass, reached stiffly over and with undisguised ejaculations of discomfort snipped off a piece of heliotrope in one of the tubs of oleander.
Still I don't understand about the wash-boiler and tubs that you mentioned," she said, after a pause.
On searching in the cellar we found the tubs in ruins, and the wash-boiler with a large hole in the bottom.
Every Monday they get two of our tubs and the wash-boiler.
The doors are to be made entirely of strong, thick glass sashes, and this will give light enough for laundry work; the tubs and ironing-table being placed close to the glazed door.
It has been supposed that large bath-tubs for immersing the whole person are indispensable to the proper cleaning of the skin.
The wash-tubs have plugs in the bottom to let off water, and cocks and pipes over them bringing cold water from the reservoir in the garret and hot water from the laundry stove.
This saves much heavy labor of emptying tubs and carrying water.
I had been told that the ship's cook must know how to prepare every dish at sea, and it is easy enough to do that with plenty of sides of bacon, and large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour.
The sea casts up tubs and barrels filled with costly wine for the convent cellar, and in the convent is already good store of beer and mead.
The sea rolled wine-tubs to the shore for the bishop's cellar.
When the cage has several decks, it is necessary to repeat this operation for each, unless there is a special provision made for loading and discharging the tubs at different levels.
The cage is then lifted by the engine clear of the keeps, which are opened by a lever worked by hand, and the empty tubs start on the return trip.
The emptytubs are carried by a corresponding arrangement on the opposite side.
The tubs are then removed or struck by the landers, who pull them forward on to the platform, which is covered with cast iron plates; at the same time empty ones are pushed in from the opposite side.
The tubs are placed on at intervals of about 20 yds.
Two tubs jostled, and two boys were upset into the water.
Other boys were swimming, practising for races, and still others were paddling round in tubs, trying to steer with their feet while they propelled the tubs forward by splashing the water with their hands.
Amid shouts and cat-calls a dozen tubs set out from the float.
Crash went the hammers; thump went the great blocks of material into the tubs, and the men quietly got away the tubs as they were filled.
The men ran the hutch to the "bottom" straight against the full tubs ready to be sent to the surface.
The tubswere formed by huge water gates at either end.
One of the strangest sensations was to turn and glance at another one of the locks--for that is what these tubs are called--to see a boat that was headed upstream rising higher and higher in the air.
From head of boiler run lines of ⅝″ lead pipe to supply sink and tubs in kitchen, basin, and bath tub on second floor.
Furnish and set up tubs of size shown, supplied and wasted the same as sink, but to have brass plugs and safety chains.
There were two large oleanders in tubs at the foot of the front steps.
Then, as if guessing by instinct what he should find, he went into the kitchen, where were two tubs full of the water which Amelia had pumped up at the start.
It was ornamented by various shrubs and flowers which grew from tubs and large pots arranged against the sides of it.
A pack of wenches going ashore with tubs and kettles and bales and such gear is not a settlement, is it?
There would be no villa gardens to attend to, no ash-pits to empty, no tubs of refuse for the pig, no carpets to beat, no one who wanted rough carpentering done.
Ha' you got a good big cask, or plenty o' tubs and that?
Now, Master Brown, we'll see what tubs are, if you please; and what sort of rags you land at night.
Be that as it may, the water was too clear for any hope of sinking tubs deeper than Preventive eyes could go; and the very honest fellows who were laboring here had not brought any tubs to sink.
He took the rest of the path in reckless leaps, and, when he reached the beach, saw that the old exciseman had posted himself beside a row of tubs which he had seized in the King's name.
Meanwhile the smugglers finished their work unmolested, and before morning eightytubs of good French spirits lay in the capacious cellars beneath the Dower House.
Once they had been interrupted in the act of running a cargo at Lunnan Cove, some miles to the south, and a hundred tubs had been seized by Mr. Mildmay.
Not by the entrance to the seal cave, for this was unsuitable in itself for a storehouse, and the work of hoisting the tubs up the wall and over the ledge would be very laborious.
While the tubs were being hoisted, and the waiting men talked quietly among themselves, Dick had leisure to turn his thoughts towards the object at his feet.
Mind you, you must not bring the tubs here if there's any interruption.
The rope was then hauled in, scarcely a word being spoken, and in less than ten minutes thirty men, each carrying two tubs slung across his shoulders, were trudging to their appointed destinations.
He had not learnt where the run was to be, but guessed, if the tubs were to be carried to the cellars of the Dower House, that the head of Trevanion Bay would be the chosen spot.
Be we to wait for 'ee, Maister, when the tubsbe all up?
He dropped the tubs overboard in the usual manner, taking their bearings carefully, and returned for them on the following night.
The back of the man at the windlass was towards him; the tackle creaked as more tubs ascended.
In their hurry, however, the work was not done so carefully as usual, with the result that one of the tubs was chafed off the sinking rope, drifted about, and next morning was descried by Penwarden from the cliff.
I have broken up tubs and ropes on the cart-roads and highways, and sometimes met with a grain of corn or barley.
Ash pans andtubs of kitchen offal choked up the areas.
Where metheglin was making, he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine.
When this is prepared, they stow it under the deck, where it lies till the fat of all the whales is on board; then cutting it still smaller, they put it up in tubs in the hold, cramming them very full and close.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
