They don't SELL this
hot water; no, you go into the great Trinkhalle, and stand around, first on one foot and then on the other, while two or three young girls sit pottering at some sort of ladylike sewing-work in your neighborhood and can't seem to see you --polite as three-dollar clerks in government offices.
"Oh, is it bad?" asked Phebe, nearly dropping a pail of
hot water in her dismay, for she knew nothing of sickness, and Dolly's suggestion had a peculiarly dreadful sound to her.
He had no fire that night, nor
hot water, and crawled under his blanket to sleep the broken hunger-sleep.
Firkin's orders, in the Park Lane establishment, was a young woman from Hampshire, whose business it was, among other duties, to knock at Miss Sharp's door with that jug of
hot water which Firkin would rather have perished than have presented to the intruder.
At twenty-five past six I turned on the
hot water in the bath, and covertly swallowed a small glass of brandy.
The
hot water from the Martian's overthrow drifted down- stream with me, so that for the best part of a mile I could see little of either bank.
I could not tell him how I felt, but he seemed to know it all; he covered me up with two or three warm cloths, and then ran to the house for some
hot water; he made me some warm gruel, which I drank, and then I think I went to sleep.
She had plunged the breakfast dishes into a tin dish-pan and was bending above it with her slim arms bared to the elbow, the steam from the
hot water beading her forehead and tightening her rough hair into little brown rings like the tendrils on the traveller's joy.
Also the air would be full of steam, from the
hot water and the hot blood, so that you could not see five feet before you; and then, with men rushing about at the speed they kept up on the killing beds, and all with butcher knives, like razors, in their hands-- well, it was to be counted as a wonder that there were not more men slaughtered than cattle.
"You would like some
hot water, wouldn't you?" said Miss Jellyby, looking round for a jug with a handle to it, but looking in vain.
I took his
hot water up to his room myself, expecting to hear, after this extraordinary delay, that something had happened.
The Reese baby has gone and fallen into a pail of
hot water at the Glen, and got nearly scalded to death and they want me right off--to put a new skin on the child, I presume.