"Oh, you will not be willing to speak to me now -- now that I am a mill-girl," she added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

We might perhaps find that silly school-girls at first decline to admit on terms of perfect equality one who had "worked for her living," and was, in their not very elegant parlance, "nothing but a mill-girl.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

O mill-girl watching late and long the shuttle's restless play!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

The mill-girl jumped up with a wild cry and rushed to the water, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference

"Thee may haud thee tongue if thee can do nought," said a mill-girl who had come up.    From Wordnik.com.  [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference

She toddled across the floor to the mill-girl, who lifted her tenderly into her ample lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

Why, "he continues, a little later," you ain't got no idea how light-minded the mill-girl is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

Even this mill-girl could talk of him, pray for him; but she never must take his name on her lips!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margret Howth, a Story of To-day] Reference

What spirit deeper than her character has hitherto displayed stirs the mill-girl in the bed next to me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

Letty leaned her head against Molly's breast and smiled contentedly, whilst the mill-girl rocked softly to and fro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

One of the editors of the "Operatives 'Magazine" had gone to Arkansas with a mill-girl who had worked beside her among the looms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference

My mother attributed this -- and her good looks -- to her wet-nurse, Janet Mercer, a mill-girl at Innerleithen, noted for her height and beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One] Reference

Alice Carter, the big mill-girl, radiant now, and with a hoarse, inarticulate, adoring young plumber in tow, went by them, and stooped to whisper something to Mrs. Burgoyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne] Reference

Other Brontë shrines have engaged us, -- Guiseley, where Patrick Brontë was married and Neilson worked as a mill-girl; the lowly Thornton home, where Charlotte was born; the cottage where she visited Harriet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference

After his death, my mother's thoughts naturally followed the direction his had taken; and seeing no other opening for herself, she sold her small estate, and moved to Lowell, with the intention of taking a corporation-house for mill-girl boarders.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference

Amanda, I mean, married the most elegant count, and he took her to his castle, and she had pearls and diamonds and silks and satins, and never had to do a thing all the rest of her life; and only think, Katie, she was a mill-girl in the beginning, just like us. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

Here and there a mill-girl in the West Riding factories read and re-read the tattered copy from the lending library; here and there some eager, unsatisfied, passionate child came upon the book and loved it, in spite of chiding, finding in it an imagination that satisfied, and a storm that cleared the air; or some strong-fibred heart felt without a shudder the justice of that stern vision of inevitable, inherited ruin following the chance-found child of foreign sailor and seaport mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emily Brontë] Reference

Before I met with the mill-girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man] Reference

Then at the pretty mill-girl by his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

The weary mill-girl lingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference