1 I returned, sought the sponge on the washstand, the salts in my drawer, and once more retraced my steps.
2 He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.
3 Mr. Rochester put the now bloody sponge into my hand, and I proceeded to use it as he had done.
4 I'll go down and get some fresh water and sponge you off.
5 That's Mammy gettin the water to sponge off the young Misses.
6 She seized the rouge sponge, daubed her cheeks, scratched at her lips with the vermilion pencil until they stung, tore open her collar.
7 A sponge has no more partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 8 It appears to me that if my boots need a sponge, your stockings and shoes stand in equal need of a brush.
9 With one hand she was supporting the fat baby that lay floating and sprawling on its back, while with the other she squeezed the sponge over him.
10 And he let her shave him or sponge all his body as if he were a child, really as if he were a child.
11 If there was one thing that he hated it was a sponge.
12 I should have exuded tears like a wet sponge.
13 There was no sign of Prissy so she went back upstairs, sponged Melanie's perspiring body and combed out her long dark hair.
14 Scarlett sponged her face in silence but fear was gnawing at her.
15 Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.