face-cloths

She nursed me in many a sick room,lifted spoons of medicine to my lips,laid cold face-cloths on my forehead,and then led me out into the airy lightand taught me to walk and swim,and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.

Archive 2007-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

She nursed me in many a sick room,lifted spoons of medicine to my lips,laid cold face-cloths on my forehead,and then led me out into the airy lightand taught me to walk and swim,and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.

Billy Collins at Iolani Bruce Schauble 2007

The bed broke when I put my suitcase on it, my TV didnt work, there were no face-cloths, my air-con didnt work, there were 2 cups and 3 forks.

sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2004

I have given away all my underclothes, excepting my very best things -- and all my old ones I made into face-cloths for the dead.

The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker

Then Llyn spoke, slow and sorrowfully, as he stooped and one by one drew the face-cloths from the dead.

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

_What are the objections to face-cloths as a means of bathing children?

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

Keeling had thought it was a loadstone, pulling at her iron, drawing her through the pearly mists that lay like face-cloths to the water and hid at a short distance the tarnish left by the sail.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

They are too easily swallowed, and after six or seven wet face-cloths have been swallowed, the child is likely to become heavy and lethargic.

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

I am going to cut them up and overlock them to make face-cloths for my labour packs.

Doula Mel 2009

We may all think about buying extra glasses, cutlery and tableware, but remember additional towels, face-cloths and toothbrushes (yes, there's always someone who forgets) too.

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