The fishwives were a most sturdy and independent class, both in manners and language. From Wordnik.com. [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]
There was the situation in the past of the 'fishwives' who'd gossip while gutting the fish. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The gods shrieked and squawked like divine fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
They are quite a feature of Boulogne, the young fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference
The Labour hecklers and frontbench came across as rude fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone's Running Scared of Gordon] Reference
Amazing weird photos of fishwives and bunnygirls and things by Ione Rucquoi. From Wordnik.com. [August 2007] Reference
You also had distinctive types of coifs for certain occupations, such as fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-06] Reference
At least Lungold has wizards in it Caithnard has nothing but fishwives and scholars. From Wordnik.com. [Harpist in the Wind]
Dougal ignored both the stench and the raucous cries of fishwives calling their wares. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
I had no idea that the fishwives in Scotland hauled the fish back to market from the shor. From Wordnik.com. [Hosting and fishwives.] Reference
But sometimes children are furiously exasperating, and turn the best of us into fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [Polka Dot Cottage: Circus in the afternoon, circus at night] Reference
Like a pack of fishwives hiding behind your mothers 'aprons waiting for Saturday, believe me. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
Taen gestured rudely, a hand-sign the Imrill Kand fishwives used to express withering disdain. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
He was staring at the wall beyond where the two Sidhe women were grappling like a couple of angry fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
Mostly men, I saw, though there were a few women of the coarser type among them, fishwives and bond servants. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
New Labour Sleaze: Andy Burnham spreading gossip like a fishwifeapologies to any actual fishwives for the comparison!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Bestepapa thought babies and small children were tiresome, and complained often that girl babies shrieked like fishwives. From Wordnik.com. ['Playing with the Grown-ups'] Reference
The language the fishwives used put to shame anything Margo had heard on the streets of New York-when she understood it at all. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
I just love the discussions over at small dead minds...illiterate fishwives, rednecks and ponces of all hues of white, of course. From Wordnik.com. [There's Small Dead Idiots, and then there's the real world.] Reference
It's none of my business, but is it possible to have less fishwives 'gossiping and bitch-slapping each other over the backyard fence?. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory Hole] Reference
We're not two fishwives to split hairs over a trifle. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure] Reference
Early in the morning one sees only fat market-women and fishwives. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
At this style of language the fishwives are said to be extremely proficient. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
A good old fishwives 'ballad jingle is worth all your sapphics and trimeters, and. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
Did I get my strength to write The Captive that day when those fishwives moved in next door to me?. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference
I could see the fishwives carrying great trays of lampreys and lambrequins toward the fish market. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
To this topmost ledge fishwives sometimes scramble by day to seek a belated sail against Lundy's Isle. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
The first money taken each day by fishwives and other dealers is spat upon to ensure increased drawings. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
One of her favourite stories is from Peggy Livingstone, 94, one of the last surviving fishwives from Fisherrow. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I like as well, however, to look into its entrance from the little marina, where the old fishwives are weaving nets. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Well, we see writers working as fishwives and scientists working as janitors, so I think she's answered that question. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
The fishwives of Scheveningen, I am told, carry the art of petticoat wearing to a higher point than any of their sisters. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
The poet must describe, as the painter sketches Irish peasant-girls and Danish fishwives, adding the beauty, and leaving out the dirt. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
The poet must describe, as the painter sketches Irish peasant girls and Danish fishwives, adding the beauty, and leaving out the dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Summer on the Lakes, in 1843] Reference
When he had nearly poisoned himself with vile absinthe and sickened himself with the conversation of fishwives, he sent for me in despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
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