Your washerwoman is a lady, and your coalman a Chesterfield. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
And she talked, seized with a ferocious gaiety, recalling a washerwoman's song. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
But patent buttons are invented, and collar-buttons that cannot be ironed off by the "washerwoman," supply a long-felt want. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference
To be called a washerwoman!. From Wordnik.com. [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference
To be called a washerwoman had wounded her. From Wordnik.com. [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference
Into the court of this washerwoman-queen, Typee and. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The laundress is just a washerwoman, so far as I know. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
Her mother, a cook and washerwoman, taught her to dance. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Peru, Rooted in Africa] Reference
This is more like an old washerwoman than a young goddess. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
I've been to call on my washerwoman, and I'm so glad I've met you. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
I found on inquiry that my dingy-faced washerwoman had supplied her. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Sicily is an account from his washerwoman, "Mrs. De Lass," dated at. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Indeed, the washerwoman feared him more than any one else in the house. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Later, she came to Spartanburg and got a job as a cook and washerwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Dinah, who was a grey-headed washerwoman, had made it, and I must drink it. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
He, the great Richard Avenel, beg pardon of Mrs. Fairfield, the washerwoman!. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Their boat was lying outside of another, containing a fat old washerwoman; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
This Scutari washerwoman is no exception to the rule, and welcomes me most heartily. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
And yet, -- the story might have been but the idle boast of a half-drunken washerwoman. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
There is not an idea in it beyond what might germinate in the brain of a washerwoman. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He allowed his washerwoman one hundred and fifty dollars a month, paid fifty dollars for. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
During the twelfth century a washerwoman was called "Lavender," in the North of England. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
McNulty was the blind father of the washerwoman who served the four families of the boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
Madame Rosalie was only a child at that time, and was discovered in the home of a washerwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
The woman is a tolerable cook and washerwoman and perfectly understands making soap and candles. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
She is constantly complaining of delicate health; and yet undergoes more fatigue than a washerwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
"Well, you're not alone, many are after me -- my landlord among others -- not to mention a washerwoman or two!". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
Giovanna was a beauty and a very good girl; but she was a washerwoman for all that, whose toil fed seven mouths. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
In "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," an English washerwoman and a Scottish soldier become an adoptive mother and son. From Wordnik.com. [Free for All 'Twelfth Night' embraces vision of original director Taichman] Reference
But among Copenhagen's 19th-century elite, he was still seen as an outsider -- the lowly son of an alcoholic washerwoman. From Wordnik.com. [LIVING A FAIRY TALE] Reference
Van Goethem was the middle of three daughters of a widowed washerwoman who lived behind the then new Garnier opera house. From Wordnik.com. [A New Life For Degas's Young Dancer] Reference
The washerwoman, with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her in her toils, will live to see her fashionable sisters all die around her. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
My washerwoman, who, with her family, lived not half a mile from us, was with me one day, and carried off some things for the wash. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
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