"Washy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the rest, "And I," said he, "do not bathe every day, for he where I use to bathe is a fuller: Cold water has teeth in it, and my head grows every day more washy than others, but when I have got my dose in my guts, I bid defiance to cold: Nor could I well do it to day, for I was at a funeral, a jolly companion, and a good man was he, Crysanthus has breathed his last: 'Tis not long since ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter
... did, Master Syd, sir. Of course I'd forgotten it. Got so wishy-washy with so much water, that I can't think ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
... have seen How tame the furious fellow was at once! How he came down, snivelled, and cowed to her, And fell to kissing her again! It was A perfect female triumph! Such a scene A man might pass through life and never see. More sentiment then followed—buckets full Of washy words, not worth my memory. But all the while she wound his Countship up, Closer and closer; till at last—tu!—wit!— She scoops him up, and off she carries him, Fish for her table! Follow, if you can; My fancy fails me. ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... who are capable of such a measure of self-control? Grant that there are whole volumes of devotional matter, original and compiled, which one may ransack without finding a single form that is not either prolix, wishy-washy, or superstitious—it does not follow that if the Prayer Book is to be enriched, the enrichments must necessarily come from such sources. Moreover it is to be remembered that there is another vice of style to be shunned in liturgical composition quite as ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington |
