Rose-Ellen and Dick and even Jimmie felt less dismal when they steamed before the washtub stove and ate something hot.
Mary Louise was rolling the washtub back to the stoop.
Beside the porch door stood a washtub on edge; a few scraggly looking chickens wandered through the yard; if not an abode of poverty it was surely a place where careless indifference to either beauty or the comfort of orderly living prevailed.
Leaning against her washtub and wringer, both as graceful as their engineer, she indulged herself in the pitiful but unfailing solace of the poor and the ugly, which is to attribute to the rich dishonesty and to the beautiful wickedness.
She could not have crawled through her own washtub if she had knocked the bottom out of it.
Dick said, as he seated himself upon the inverted washtub which Billy had emptied.
Sanford said, "until you have had enough of the washtub to last you for five years.
Into the kitchen he walked, and found Bathalina at the washtub chanting as usual a dismal stave.
Senator Steve was rising from the flattened semblance of a washtub and feeling of himself tenderly.
I could repay all of the years mother has spent over the drearywashtub by just one long, hard grip at this lean throat.
A sense of justice told him not to press the matter, but as he walked away from the washtub and out at the kitchen door, he hoped there would be plain talk of the matter at supper time.
The Potato Face Blind Man said to him, "I have to carry home a heavy load of money to-night, an aluminum dishpan full of silver dollars and a galvanized iron washtub full of silver dollars.
He shoveled out of the wheelbarrow till the dishpan was full, till the washtub was full.
True, it was only a common washtub that she placed on the kitchen floor and filled by hand; but it was a luxury that had taken her twenty-four years to achieve.
All she'd done was to put a washtub on the ground square under the demijohn.
We took our Saturday night bath in a large washtubby the kitchen stove.
It was in a washtub three feet across and over a foot high.
But, above all, they studied day and night the art of pleasing the regent, whose frown could send any of them instantly to the washtub or the scrubbing-brush.
A Washtub Stand Usually two old chairs or an old box makes the stand for the washtub, and these are not always the right height.
Though all else was in shadow, his large eyes shone with unnatural brightness, and followed his mother's feeble efforts at the washtub with that expression of premature sadness so pathetic in childhood.
Dennis stood by her, a stanch and helpful friend; Ernst was earning a good little sum weekly, and by her needle and washtub the patient woman continued the hard battle of life with fair prospects of success.
But Josiah sez the tub wuz on castors, and he had a idee of havin' our old washtub fixed up and go to Washington, D.
Dick said, as he bent his tall figure under the low door-way, and seated himself upon the inverted washtub which Billy had emptied.
A coarse gritty texture is peculiar to smalt, whether it be the Powder Blue of the washtub and Blue Sand of the pottery, or the Dumont's and Royal Blue of the artist and high-class manufacturer.
Not one of them ever built a boat in his life before, and I'm sure it looked a deal more like a big washtub with a cover on than a ship.
And if she looked, as Captain Cathie admitted, something of a cross between a washtub and a patchwork quilt, she was undoubtedly built strong and would stand a good deal of knocking about.
Your elephants took all my pink lemonade, from the washtub where I had ice in it!
Just outside the tent, was a lemonade stand, and on the ground by it was a big washtub full of pink lemonade, the kind they always sell at circuses.
The keeper paid the man for the lemonade the elephants had taken, and the man made another washtub full.
In this sense, Charlie Wah Loo, with his washtub and irons, is his own beloved helpmate.
I'll never throw my education away by bending over a washtub or by moving about in a white man's kitchen.
Before day dawned on a Monday morning, and while night yet frowned his blackest on Saturday night, she was found either at the washtub or ironing board, striving to make her "pints meet.
However, the police contented themselves with kicking over the washtub and its contents, and took their departure, leaving Mrs. Yankovitch screaming in the midst of a flood.
He told how he had been put thru the third degree; and she told how the water from the washtub had leaked thru the ceiling, and the plaster had fallen, and ruined the dinner of a poor workingman's family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "washtub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
