The feet, which have no toenails or other terminations, are like small, hard sponges.
People were expected to wash their bodies with small sanitary sponges that could be rinsed with half a cup of water.
"Delicious," Auden murmured, as he munched what was, apparently, a small sponge soaked in glue.
Leuconia, for example, is a small leuconoid sponge about 10 cm tall and 1 cm in diameter.
There were several small sponges, each in a silken net with a string attached.
With budding a small sponge grows on the parent; when it is done growing, it simply falls off.
A wetted small sponge, often supplied with soldering equipment, can be used to wipe the tip.
Nearby you can see one of those "loaves," a wizened rectangle like a small, dry sponge that weighs only 125 grams.
Margaret watched curiously as Zayata took the slate and carefully wiped off the message with a small sponge that the servant gave him.
He set the bottle on the table; produced a small sponge which he thrust into the cylinder of the mask; then inserted the funnel.