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“One. Two. Three,” she says, showing me how much soap powder to add and how many cup- fuls of water to use for rinsing.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

She hurried over the last mouth fuls, and washed the tips of her white fingers in her glass while her husband in an absent-minded way gave her some idea of the new volume.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)