132 examples of laundress in sentences

It is difficult to write stylistically a per-annum report of 1,327 curvatures of the spine, whereas the poor specific little vertebra of Mamie O'Grady, daughter to Lou, your laundress, whose alcoholic husband once invaded your very own basement and attempted to strangle her in the coal-bin, can instantly create an apron bazaar in the church vestry-rooms.

" "Harry, ifif it's the money, maybe I could manage" "Yesand scrimp and save and scrooge along without a laundress another four years, and do his washing and" "Icould fix the money part, Harryeasy.

Then he caught at a proof-sheet, and catched up a laundress's bill instead; made a dart at Bloomfield's Poems, and threw them in agony aside.

Soiled baby's napkins should be rolled up and put into a pan, when they should be washed out every morning, and hung out to dry: they are then in a fit state to send to the laundress; and should, on no account, be left dirty, but done every morning in this way.

I know dat much!" "Are you a good laundress?" asked Aunt Alice.

The "little man" was no other than the laundress's son, who respectfully took off his cap in passing.

The water-mill's sluices were opened, and the current was strong; the washing-stool was nearly carried away by it, and the laundress had hard work to strive against it.

did the sheriff really say so, child?" said the Laundress, and her lips quivered.

" "Dead!" repeated the Laundress, and she turned as white as a corpse.

" The poor laundress's limbs trembled under her.

Just as she reached her humble home, the laundress fell down on the paving-stones, fainting.

In the evening she was again in the laundress's miserable room.

The Laundress now felt a little better; the warm ale had strengthened her, the smell of the meat had done her good.

cookthe laundress?

A smell like an eating-house and a pastry-cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!

And thou, my sluttish laundress, Cynthia, Ne'er think'st on Furor's linen, Furor's shirt.

His pick-tooth bears a great part in his discourse, so does his body, the upper parts whereof are as starched as his linen, and perchance use the same laundress.

John Somerville looked at her without much interest, supposing that she might be a seamstress, or laundress, or some applicant for charity.

" "I am not in the habit of acting as laundress," said the woman, proudly.

One morning Pasquin appeared clothed in a very dirty shirt, and, upon being asked by Marforio, why he wore such foul linen, replied, he could get no other, for the Pope had made his washerwoman a princess,meaning thereby the Pope's sister, Donna Camilla, who had formerly been a laundress, but was now established with a fortune and a palace.

Add to this the probable gifts to similarly fortunate relatives of a competent local waitress, of an equally generously disposed laundress with cousins, not to mention the genial, open-handed generosity of a hired man in the matter of kindling-wood and edibles, and living becomes expensive with local talent to help.

The laundress, with diabolical cunning, takes care to place her trade-mark as near the top rim as possible.

A laundress was boiling clothing over a fire near by; Ailsa slipped off her gingham overdress, unbound the white turban, and tossed them on the grass near the fire.

Their dishes went in reversion to the inferior class of servants, laundress, sempstress, chambermaids, and the like, who had much more liberty than their betters, and not such a lack of occupation as Anne soon perceived that she should suffer from.

I said: "Now that the Spanish farce is thrown aside, it is hard indeed that I cannot even be allowed to exchange a few words with a laundress in my solitary conditionhard that I should be pressed to the wall in this fiendish fashion.

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