How To Use Washerwoman In A Sentence

  • Quite close to Farmer White's is a little ruinous cottage, white-washed once, and now in a sad state of betweenity, where dangling stockings and shirts, swelled by the wind, drying in a neglected garden, give signal of a washerwoman. Our Village
  • In fact, he blessed me twice, which the village washerwoman (who always attended these ceremonies) duly noted. GYPSY MASALA
  • Don't show up your lovely ring with washerwoman's hands.
  • I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
  • He saw no mother but a washerwoman at her skivvying and the dirt-faced children that would be clinging to her skirts. At Swim, Two Boys
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  • He gurns his face effortlessly into a toothless, gummy washerwoman's grimace.
  • His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman.
  • I 'ave curled it with the curling tongs -- not perhaps curl, but what the washerwoman would say -- ` goffer,' and for the rest, can you not see the wire? Pixie O'Shaughnessy
  • I'm keen to try on a frock - there's a pretty little washerwoman's number hanging on a rail in the costume department I've already got my eye on.
  • It may be well for the reputation of Tinkletown to mention that one of the donors was Mrs. Raspus, a negro washerwoman who did work for the "dagoes" engaged in building the railroad hard by; another was the wife of Antonio Galli, a member of the grading gang, and the third was The Daughter of Anderson Crow
  • I really wish that another woman had run after the first washerwoman and told her that there had been a mistake. GYPSY MASALA
  • She looked probably in her late twenties, I recognized her, though, for I couldn't have possibly forgotten that washerwoman's build.
  • ‘Course, another reason that couples stayed together in the past was that women actually having jobs beyond washerwoman/alewyf/seamstress - hem hem**/ wise woman that paid a living wage is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Tax before marriage
  • While toiling as a St. Louis washerwoman during the 1890s, she began to go bald.
  • I've been called a lot of different things in the last couple of years, but ‘a plump, wrinkly old washerwoman from Fez, Morocco’ wasn't one of them.
  • Patients get severe muscle cramps; their skin hangs loose, and their hands look like a washerwoman's that have become dehydrated after prolonged water exposure.
  • I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
  • Chances are that the washerwoman did not have a judge for a husband or father.
  • Why, this old fellow lives by petty larceny; he hasn't the dignity of a large thief: he is a filcher of caps and napkins from a washerwoman's basket; a robber of hen-roosts; a pocketer of tea-spoons! Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
  • As the ungainly child of an unlucky shoemaker and an illiterate washerwoman in the Danish city of Odense, he dreamed of being a famous actor and made up little plays about princes and princesses.
  • His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman.
  • Washerwoman: Marriage is the most expensive way to get your laundry free.
  • It'd tak 'a washerwoman his claes to rub and scrub, Fitba' Crazy
  • I have no father, and my mother was a washerwoman.
  • Mrs Martin was a widow and a washerwoman, and had a ne'er-do-well brother, a fisherman, who frequently "sponged" upon her. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
  • The first woman he sees is a washerwoman hanging out the institution's washing.
  • In the case of the washerwoman, it is a sound - the shouts of the fleeing man - that throws her into a panic.

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