You might help in the dining room, setting table and washing up, helping ma and me--though I don't do much except overseeing.
He builds upon Mk i, 19, yet instead of saying that the fishermen were mending their nets in their boats, he says they had gone out of their boats and were washing their nets.
Matthew's addition of Pilate's hand-washing is probably due to his desire, or the desire of the tradition back of him, to relieve the Roman authorities of responsibility for the death of Jesus.
The dispute about hand-washing and the things that defile would have no interest for Luke or his gentile readers.
The other day the women in my house were washing and cleaning up for the holidays.
In the same island another tree is found, whose leaf, if touched, causes at once a tumour of a very painful nature to break out, which can only be checked and healed by frequent washing with sea water.
The only thing she ever gave away was the leaf of a Leek, which she flung to a beggar, who importuned her one day as she was washing her potherbs.
The boys had gone to bed without washing their feet, which now looked like toads, calloused, brown, and chapped.
The man thrust his dirty naked feet into his huge boots, and, without washing his face or combing his hair, went out to the barn to do his chores.
Here washing is done for two classes: for the poor and sick, to whom the service is given as a charity, and to those who pay for the work and whose money enables the mission to be partly self-supporting.
His next was at the little port-hole window, which he unfastened and threw open, to feel a puff of soft air and hear the gentle washing of the ocean, which spread out calm and still like a sea of gold beneath an orange sky.
So calm and still too, and so pleasant to lie back there in spite of heat and thirst, listening to that lapping, washing sound softened by distance into a whisper.
For aught we know, sir, they're all capsized and washing about like so much chaff by now.
He set the example, still bearing the insensible boy, and the next minute they had reached the comparative security of the saloon, where the water was now washing to and fro, coming in with a rush and pouring out again.
He was scorched by the heat, and there was a pleasant lapping, washing sound of water making its way into his ears for some time before someone said the above words.
In an effort to do some washing for myself, I had lost a plain gold ring from my finger, a present from Miss Cattie Everett of Rusk, and Miss Jennie Wood Sheppard replaced it with one of her own.
Truelie it is nothing else but the washing of the combes, when the honie is wroong out, and one of the best things that I know belonging thereto is, that they spend but [Sidenote: Hydromel.
For what great smart is it to be turned out of an hot sheet into a cold, or after a little washing in the water to be let lose againe vnto their former trades?
It was called a wash-house, and during the day washing was done there.
She went forward, and opened the parlour door; Alice was washing the child, and she turned with an annoyed look to see the intruder.
Or they were down at the Long Pool, washing the sheep, or on the fells, shearing them.
The cow-puncher sank back upon his case of tomatoes while the "Cap" ate in great, hungry mouthfuls, soaking his bread in the sloppy beans and washing it down with frequent noisy sips of hot coffee.
After washing the dust from his face and hands he went through the cook's mess-box, then, having nothing else to do, laid down for a nap on one of the bunks in the second tent and was soon sleeping peacefully.
For the same reason in washing up the dinner or supper plates you must be careful not to make a splashing, or the crocodiles would hear it and take umbrage.
For it is a common belief that the effect of contact with a sacred object must be removed, by washing or otherwise, before a man is free to mingle with his fellows.
The first one they came upon was peeling potatoes; farther on another was washing out a barber's shop; while a third, bearded to the eyes, was soothing a crying child and rocking it to and fro on his knee to quiet it.
Calm after the storm that had raged across it, only little waves were washing in.
Water surged about him, washing off all the sweat and grime which he had accumulated during the day.
Pierre LeDou's wife, who had already finished washing the rest of the dishes, put Ramsay's in the dish water and left them there.
Then she softly unlocked the door and set it ajar, and began washing her dishes in the dim twilight of the scullery, singing a little song to herself the while.
The arrangements for cooking, washing of clothes, and so forth, are much upon the plan of those I have seen at home.
Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
It was a usual occurrence for those who were awaiting their turns at the washing troughs, to romp and scuffle with each other in the yard.
We crossed the yard, on the way to breakfast, for the purpose of washing our faces, which was permitted by the prison regulations, but a certain method of doing it was prescribed.
The Washing Day," shows a pattern that will please little English toy-makers.
It was quiet too, for there was only a man in the yard washing a cart, and a rough-coated grey dog sitting near.
From this humiliating position I heard the voice of the manwashing the cart: "'That your dorg?
The cat was sitting primly upright on the step washing its face after its meal.
A band of gypsies seated on the grass about a mile from the city limits, were lazily washing their breakfast dishes.
Partridge, who had been all this time washing his bloody nose at the pump, returned into the kitchen at the instant when his master and the landlord were shaking hands with each other.
The person that I hire to help do the washing must scrub up the kitchen after the clothes are all out.
Will you not give me your washingto do, Mrs. Walker?
By taking in as much washing and ironing as she could do, and going out two days in the week regularly, she managed to procure for herself and child the bare necessaries of life.
Can't you get some one else to do your washingthis week?
It was some relief to think I was going to get my washing done; but the idea of having the ironing about all the week fretted my mind.
I must own to feeling exceedingly angry, and rose to ring the bell for Netty to return, in order to tell her that she could go to washing or leave the house, as best suited her fancy.
Perhaps she will be well enough to do your washing to-morrow," suggested my husband.
Agnes," said I, "do you know of any one that can get to do the washing this week?
An emotion of pity arose in my bosom, as I saw her bending over the washing tub, and remembered that, for this hard labour during a whole day, the pay was to be but seventy-five cents.
I handed her the seventy-five cents she had earned for washing for me during a whole day.
