“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”

—  Thomas Hood

Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Christening http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_3.htm#115, st. 10 (1841-1843).
1840s

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