Even this country that looks like as if it had had all the colour washed out of it in strong soda and suds.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
Then came a dull roar like that of a tram through a covered bridge, and then a great wall of yellow suds, boiling, curling, its surface covered with sticks, planks, shingles, floating barrels, parts of buildings, dashed itself against the smoothed earth slopes of his own "fill," surged a third of its height, recoiled on itself, swirled furiously again, and then inch by inch rose toward the top.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
A door opened, and a face covered with thick soap suds and surmounted by a tangle of sandy hair looked out.
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre