A plate of washy stuff called soup, for dinner, followed by some sloppy mashed potatoes, and sometimes green stuff; and for supper, more sloppy potatoes.
For dinner we had a basin of soup, which was almost undrinkable, some thin washy stuff; occasionally we got some potatoes.
Washy closed his mouth, then let it slowly open again.
The first effect of the Washy revelations on Mr. McCall had been merely to stun him.
Washy had written some good things himself, but had found it difficult to win recognition.
Sir Walter regarded him highly and Washy dropped in on him, casual like, at Abbottsford.
Well, my countrymen, our Washy is dead, but we appreciate him now just the same.
Utterly opposed to any such wishy-washy settlement of our national difficulties, I vote "no.
What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among laurel trees with a wishy-washy school-girl to such fun as this?
Just why a man who knows men, knows how wishy-washy they are as individuals, should be influenced by a demonstration from a mass of them, is hard to understand.
Those are the epithets the wishy-washy always hurl at the strong; they put me in the small and truly aristocratic class of men who do.
They talk about the brain, and the spinal nerves, and the soliar plexus; but give a man a wake, washy circulation, and what is he?
They didn't see, here's a poor washy frame, with a wake circulation and no vigor.
That’s Washy Still and Virgy, the overseer’s children,” explained someone.
I met Washy Still up the road yonder, a little way back, looking as sour as vinegar, and you ought to have seen the way I cut him.
Washy Still thought he wuz gwine git one o’ dem whar wuz at Budwood; but he ain’t do it.
He is a weak, watery, washy creature, wanting no end of coddling, boiled corn, and linseed tea.
It was the most wishy-washy concoction that was ever put on paper.
Then suddenly the Bristol in the nose began to cough and sputter, and the controls went wishy-washy in his grasp.
Otis returned the wishy-washy compliments in bad French, and with a pained look in his eye.
As the creature scurried for sanctuary, Washy observed: "Them's curious critters.
Old Washy Gallup and Amiel Perdue suddenly remembered that it was almost chore time as this radiant young woman said: "I wish to see Mr. Abram Silt--Captain Silt.
He should engage old Washy Gallup to give color to the group," Louise said to Bane, laughing.
That they're scare't o' blue water," Washy said decidedly.
She found him reading an epistle of his own, while Cap'n Joab, Milt Baker, Washy Gallup, and several other neighbors hovered near.
There was a skiff drawn up above high-water mark and the hoop-backed figure of Washy Gallup sat in it.
That same doubt as expressed by Washy Gallup--the suggestion that Cap'n Abe Silt possessed an inborn fear of the sea that he had never openly confessed.
They're getting as common as sandfleas on Horseneck Bar, andWashy Gallup says that's a-plenty.
Washy Gallup--no relation to Betty save through interminable cross-currents of Card and Baker blood.
Washy sharply, springing the surprise he had been leading up to.
You're free of that damned wishy-washy Morton blood.
You make a natural sympathy appear wishy-washy sentimentalism.
What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among the trees with a wishy-washy school girl to such fun as this?
It is important that the red should be painted in solid, and not be thin and washy in character.
Drawings executed with a weak, washy kind of ink on yellow-toned paper do not give the block-maker a chance.
The Cinnamon are of two shades, the Light Cinnamon and the Silver, which is a pale washy tint, that looks very delicate and pretty when perfectly clean.
Modern paper-hangings are too superficial and wishy-washy for the purpose.
Mista Minista go to Mista Sam Kow in Infield, washy colla.
I am faint; and I want good ale to give me heart, not wishy-washy tea to take away the little strength I have.
A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own.
Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.
A violent-tempered child may be such because he is outraged by wrong; if so, teach him control but do not tell him in modern wishy-washy fashion that "one must never get angry.
It is a wishy-washy ideal of teaching that regards pain as equivalent to cruelty.
