Typically, a charwoman has an established weekly schedule, coming in on a particular day to clean and do light housekeeping and then leaving again. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.plumbersurplus.com/?RefID=CJ]
WILLIS: A charwoman is a person who cleans a building, so she is responsible for cleaning up the building. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference
Heaven knows what the charwoman had to say in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
ROBERTS: Or Dickens -- lamplighter, charwoman and a sexton?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference
Our charwoman lives in a slum that is situated over a pond. From Wordnik.com. [Of Happiness] Reference
A very early dinner, apparently; perhaps with the charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917] Reference
“Did the charwoman carry all the furniture down herself?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Old Lady]
Find out the name and address of the charwoman, and go see her. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
Irish charwoman, with a pail and broom, opened the door for the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
She was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, where her mother was a charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Montmartre]
Last winter, our charwoman came to our house one morning very late. From Wordnik.com. [Of Happiness] Reference
Our charwoman, who goes to turn out for him, told me that this morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Secret Room]
‘By your leave, Mr Knag,’ retorted the charwoman, turning sharp round. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
"Let the charwoman alone to be the first!" cried she who had entered first. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
To her extreme annoyance Mary was not at home; a charwoman opened the door. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
‘Let the charwoman alone to be the first!’ cried she who had entered first. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Carol] Reference
"Without that hair and with a little dirt on your face, you can be a charwoman.". From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
I give you my energy and my life, and you want to put me aside as if I was a charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Mrs. Gump, the tiny little charwoman, came every day, and was cheerful and hard-working. From Wordnik.com. [The Circus of Adventure]
She said she had for some time had regular work as a charwoman for three days in every week. From Wordnik.com. [Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest And Other Stories] Reference
He lived with the most rigid economy, his household being managed solely by an old charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Grassou] Reference
Everywhere milk is scarce and poor, and the butter such as no charwoman would touch in England. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
I went to the front door, and my charwoman was in the flat, just coming out of the dining-room. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
A poor charwoman had died at Weston-super-Mare who had, I believe, often worked in Newman's house. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
A vision of his death -- how he is plundered by laundress, charwoman, and undertaker; the phantom of. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
I got back to my flat in time to catch my charwoman at work and tell her to make up the spare room bed. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
You would think that after three years of nothing but working like a charwoman, I would have gotten used to it. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
I was awakened at daybreak by the charwoman, and having arrived at the inn, was at first placed inside the coach. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
He himself, at forty, you will see in his photo, looked more like a gas employee, and his wife was like a charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Old Lady]
News of it reached them at midday by means of the village charwoman, who dropped in twice a week to despoil their larder. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
“Burning her lamp until the wee hours of the morning, dressing like a charwoman, taking all of her meals in her room.”. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
Mrs. Cunningham's charwoman came to see them off, promising to lock up after them, and come in every day to clean and dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Circus of Adventure]
One of them was already a widow and lived in the inn with her two children, his grandchildren, and worked for him like a charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
They hold the feet of a monstrous charwoman whom the audience never sees, only her broom, sweeping the flies and their dramas away. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
These are the thanks he gets for trudging about three mortal weeks from house-painter to upholsterer, from cabinet-maker to charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
But she found it harder to empathize with the frustrations, moods and melancholy of the actual cook or charwoman right in front of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Brooms of Bloomsbury] Reference
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