tubful

Then I ran a big tubful of water and eased myself into it.

I nodded, my eyes riveted on the steam coming from the tubful of water.

Gardener awoke the next morning fully dressed in a tubful of cold water.

I walked, somewhat gingerly, into the bathroom to soak in a tubful of hot water.

Homemade gefilte fish is ground out by the tubful.

The second tubful was hotter than the first.

It was his luxurious custom to shave while sitting snugly in a tubful of hot water.

With eight men shot to hell they could be typing blood for months and leave a tubful unaccounted for.

Her pasty skin shook whenever she made the slightest movement, like a tubful of jelly.

"One tubful provided water for the washing machine.

Even in mid-winter, hydrangeas and lilacs bloom by the tubful.

It was not Thea alone who could warm water without fire, though this was far easier, a mere tubful.

You wouldn't have a drink on you for a tubful of thirsty travelers, would you?"

A typical washing machine has a vertical-axis design, in which clothes are agitated in a tubful of water.

The door remains sealed until Christmas Eve, when I discover a tubful of blooming trumpets.

This is just our second practice, Mr. Dayne says we're horrid as a tubful of castor oil.

Wallowing in a tubful of hot water, prior to a small supper and a long sleep, she found it unbelievable that Targovi should imagine evil of these people.

Soon Bebe is conducting meetings and offering to pose on the cover of her first issue in a tubful of bubbles, to show "that I'm all about fun."

He had gone to space, sealing over that tubful of blood forever, obliterating it, all traces of her, of marriage, and of racial awareness from his consciousness.

His back -was up; his tail, in its fully recovered state, would have made an excellent bottlebrush, his eyes were slits, his ears were flat, and he was hissing like a tubful of vipers.

They kept hooking hardware into him-decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory.

And I scrubbed, and much of the blood came out, making the water all red; and I ran that down the drain and pumped another tubful, and left the things to soak, with some vinegar poured in to help with the smell.

The unaccustomed liquid burned his tongue and the inside of his mouth where it touched flesh, but it also kindled up memories of earlier days when Remo could drink a tubful if he wanted, and needed answer to no one but his head.

It was half an hour past noon, when the corner hotel was quiet; an hour when Marie-Angèle could let her slip into the bathroom with her pass key without telling Madame, who would otherwise charge her four hundred francs (anciens ) for the tubful of hot water.