soapy

The door was opened, but nothing came in except a soapy arm and a strong gush of tobacco.

Rivera, on his knees, scrubbing, looked up, with suspended brush, his bare arms flecked with soapy, dirty water.

Cecily could NOT eat her porridge; she declared she had such a bad cold that she had no appetite; a cold she certainly had; the rest of us choked our messes down and after we had done so Peg asked us if we had noticed a soapy taste.

Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam.

Their idea of a square meal is a pound and a half of roast beef with five or six good-sized potatoes (soapy ones preferred as being more substantial), plenty of greens, and four thick slices of Yorkshire pudding, followed by a couple of currant dumplings, a few green apples, a pen'orth of nuts, half a dozen jumbles, and a bottle of ginger-beer.

I'll be bound that if we went down there we should find 'pipes' of soapy brecciated rock.

"Drink, damn you, drink--have some more," he would say, as he shoved their heads down and under the dirty, soapy water.

But Helen's laugh rang true, as she raised a soapy hand to heaven and swore that never, nowhere and nohow, would she again fall in love with any of the Wilcox family, down to its remotest collaterals.

His lips were flecked with a soapy froth, and sometimes he choked and gurgled and became inarticulate.

Across the yard they saw Makola come out of his hut, a tin basin of soapy water in his hand.