dishes
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The cereal in the dishpans was brown and shimmering on top from the thick layer of crawling weevils that covered it.
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They used firehoses, thumped on dishpans and shot skyrockets.
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Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes.
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Dr. Harry Smallen had studied the surf at Martha's Vineyard, Mass, and successfully avoided the soapy-water look that makes most amateur seascapes dreary as dishpans.
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He was officiating at a funeral in Sémur, while I bought cups, dishpans, and various other utensils for our chocolate outfit.
From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Shortall, Katherine