That winter proved a very severe one; and the two poor workwomen, pillaged in this fashion, would have perished in their sorry home of cold and starvation, together with the dear child for whom they still did their best, had it not been for the help which their old friend, Madame Angelin, regularly brought them.

And Madame Angelin did not only envy that poor workwoman her little boy, she also envied her that old man smoking his pipe yonder, that infirm relic of labor who at all events saw clearly and still lived.

"Whom for?" inquired S.C. "Little girl in the red brick house at the corner," said the workwoman; "name of Birdie.

For that his mother which him bore and bred, The most fine-fingred workwoman on ground, 260 Arachne, by his meanes was vanquished Of Pallas, and in her owne skill confound**, When she with her for excellence contended, That wrought her shame, and sorrow never ended.

Who has not heard of the town of Lowell, where farmers' daughters go to earn their dowry, where the labor of the factories brings no dissipation in its train, where the workwomen read, write, teach Sunday-schools, where their morality detracts nothing from their liberty and progress?

sempstress^, semstress^, seamstress; needlewoman^, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer^. minister &c (instrument) 631; servant &c 746; representative &c (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759. coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis

We visited one of the houses where this was in progress, and where the most skilful workwomen are employed.

The ladies were all busy examining her head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones the very next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up.

"If they help us we are saved!" says a workwoman, who is holding a little boy in the dress of a national guard by the hand.

Upon an answer in the affirmative from the heroic defender of Right and Liberties of Paris, the man mounted the stairs to the poor workwoman's rooms.

Some said it was owing to the negligence of the overseers or the imprudence of the workwomen; others, that the fire was caused by a shell.

Her face, and voice, and smile would alone have won way for her; but in addition to those, she was a most dexterous workwoman.

All the mills were shut, and the little chapel was crowded with the workmen and workwomen.

The "treachery" is all the greater if the objector is a workman or a workwoman.

Marian is my assistant's pupil, and he has made a very expert workwoman of her already.

My hopes appeared to be well founded, for the large booking-hall at the station was thronged with a multitude entirely strange to meworkmen and workwomen and workgirls crowded the place.

Latsky and Giotto took immigration, Dunan took politics and the Irish, Heming took the East Side, Izon, foreign news, and Sally Heffer took workwomen.

The two mothers conversed together, and, as Mrs. Cadurcis was a great workwoman, there was at least one bond of sympathy between her and the tapestry of her hostess.