slop-jar

She was entranced by the wash-room with its hot and cold water and its basin of apparent silver, whose contents did not have to be lifted and splashed into a slop-jar, but magically emptied themselves at the raising of a medallion.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

I've tacked up two thick towels back of her washstand and put a mat under her slop-jar; but children are awful hard on furniture.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

The mantelpiece and table-top and so on are gray marble, and the ornaments are two deformed gilt cherubs holding a slop-jar with a clock-face in the middle of it.

Peggy Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

I've tacked up two thick towels back of her washstand and put a mat under her slop-jar; but children are awful hard on furniture.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

I've tacked up two thick towels back of her washstand and put a mat under her slop-jar; but children are awful hard on furniture.

The Flag-Raising Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

He opened a window and looked out and saw two suspicious looking characters trying to pick the lock with a skeleton key, and he picked up a new slop-jar that Ma had bought when we moved, cover and all, and dropped it down right between the two del-gates.

The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 1878

When the bath is finished, gather three corners of the rubber cloth in the left hand, take the fourth corner in the right in such a way as to form a spout when lifted or held over the slop-jar or bucket.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

After firmly emptying the pitcher, basin, and slop-jar on the burning bed, I proceeded cautiously to the garden, and, returning with the garden-engine, I directed a small stream at Mr. Rawjester.

Condensed Novels Bret Harte 1869

After firmly emptying the pitcher, basin, and slop-jar on the burning bed, I proceeded cautiously to the garden, and returning with the garden engine, I directed a small stream at Mr. Rawjester.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

Such an amount of good will and neighborly kindness also went into the mess, that I never could find the heart to refuse, but always received it with thanks, sipped it with hypocritical relish while he remained, and whipped it into the slop-jar the instant he departed, thereby gratifying him, securing one rousing laugh in the doziest hour of the night, and no one was the worse for the transaction but the pigs.

Hospital Sketches 1863