... The customs of countries and princes’ palaces are only good so long as they give no annoyance; but the way of washing they have here is worse than doing penance... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...At the question a young girl who was washing stood up and said, “Teresa Panza is my mother, and that Sancho is my father, and that knight is our master...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
... So we lay for about a quarter of an hour, whiles whispering, whiles lying still and hearing nothing earthly but the washing of the water on the piers...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...The repast was partaken of with decency and good manners, and concluded by washing the hands as at first...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Just as I had finished, and the driver, a man called Tom, was washing up the things, in comes the young scoundrel of a voorlooper driving one ox before him...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...I found him sitting in a lowhut, with five or six more of his companions, washing their handsand feet, and frequently taking water into their mouths, garglingand spitting it out again...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...A hoe or spade for diggingup the sand, two or three calabashes for washing it in, and a fewquills for containing the gold dust, are all the implementsnecessary for the purpose...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...While some of the party are busied in washing the sands, othersemploy themselves farther up the torrent, where the rapidity ofthe stream has carried away all the clay, sand, etc...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...Some women, however, by longpractice, become so well acquainted with the nature of the sand,and the mode of washing it, that they will collect gold whereothers cannot find a single particle...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...I found him sitting aft on the stern grating, replacing his socks and shoes, which he had removed from his feet at four bells in order to take a leading part in the matutinal ceremony of washing decks...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...She endeavors to support her family by washing...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Once in a great while Lucinda was allowed to go to church, when she could be spared from her daily routine of cooking, washing, etc...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
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