Wipes
[waips]
Examples
- Wipes,' replied Master Bates; at the same time producing four pocket-handkerchiefs. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The old housekeeper wipes her eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yes, he's a sortin' the wipes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He faintly wipes his forehead with his handkerchief and gasps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. Plato. The Republic.
- Again, repentance wipes off every crime, especially if attended with an evident reformation of life and manners. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Editor: Olivia