"Mopping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the mystical sense begins in self-simplification. The feeling, willing, seeing self is to move from the various and the analytic to the simple and the synthetic: a sentence which may cause hard breathing and mopping of the brows on the part of the practical man. Yet it is to you, practical man, reading these pages as you rush through the tube to the practical work of rearranging unimportant fragments of your universe, that this message so needed by your time—or rather, by your want of time— is addressed. ...
— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill
... says Barty, mopping his nose with his handkerchief. "I left my crust on the bench outside the refectoire. I wish one of you fellows would get it ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... out. Christophe took Schulz's arm and made him walk a little faster than the old man liked. Kunz followed mopping his brow. They talked gaily. The people standing at their doors watched them pass and thought that Herr Professor Schulz looked like a young man. When they left the town they took to the fields. Kunz complained ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... excoriations, eczema, and other skin affections. It is much easier to prevent these conditions than to cure them. Cleanliness, not only in giving a daily efficient bath, but in every other respect, is essential. Castile soap only should be used, and no rubbing indulged in, simply mopping the parts with gauze well saturated with soapy water. All napkins should be removed as soon as soiled. If the skin is easily chafed the child should be bathed in salt water or water in which bran is mixed as explained in ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague
... bath of spirit and watch carefully. When the natural colours show in their original tints, average time three to six hours, remove the tissues from the spirit bath, dry off the spirit from the cut surfaces by mopping with a soft cloth, then transfer ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
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