How To Use Wench In A Sentence

  • In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment.
  • Of course, it never hurts if a biographer's subject boozes and ... whatever the non-gender-specific equivalent of "wenches" is. ON PARNASSUS FOR 15 MINUTES
  • Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother, -- [Mother or mauther, a wench.] -- that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
  • I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Horrible Boys
  • He would at least describe the wench who'd clocked him with a trunk.
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  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • We have indeed reached some significant milestones around here of late, and it's high time we celebrated with a flagon of ale, a buxom wench or two, and our very first CONTEST on CROM! Archive 2010-03-01
  • Covering 20 square kilometers, the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre will include a command centre, in addition to a rocket-launching site, rocket assembly plant, and a space-science theme park.
  • Verres, against whom Tully so much inveighs, in winter he never was extra tectum vix extra lectum, never almost out of bed, [1419] still wenching and drinking; so did he spend his time, and so do myriads in our days. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Affectionate childe: Ha ha. This wench is too interesting.
  • I admit the Mayener wench knows how to order a city, but she thinks every day is the Feast of Lights. Lord of Chaos
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • After all, shouting "oi, serving wench, bring us a stein of your finest foaming ale" is within the capability of all but the most sozzled Bierkeller regular.
  • If you don't mind being called a wench it is fine with me. New Museum rerun
  • So far, the rope is one of the few surviving toys available to these two; little wenchface has recently chewed through TWO so-called indestructible Kong toys and I want my money back… Photo Friday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
  • When I served with the mercenaries of Corinthia we swilled and wenched all night and fought all day aye, blood ran down the channels of our swords. Black Colossus
  • One of them took her by the Hand, and Began to grow very familiar with her; and found he might have any Kindness from her which he had a mind to, for asking; but the other seeing him ingross the wench to himself, began to The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women
  • To the teenage wenches in Hindley Street who thought I was a visiting celebrity - thanks.
  • In most of our minds, he is a withdrawn, lonely figure, brave but enigmatic - scarcely to be compared with his rival, who was combative, a drinker and something of a wencher.
  • In the picturesque port city of Bahia, Flor, a lovely young woman, marries the wastrel Vadinho, a compulsive wencher who beats her.
  • I was a young strapper about sixteen years old, and thinking about wenches pretty hard and wanting something to help me out wid the one I liked best. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives
  • He was the manifest ruffian, wencher, whoremonger, and most infamous cuckold-maker that ever breathed.
  • Mudge the great thief, Mudge the great drunk, Mudge the great wencher, Mudge the great ... The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • Yell louder , wench , shriek , wail, but it will not dull the voice of truth.
  • Pirate Wench, yes ... the copay is very expensive ... a killer. andyinny More Elections - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Till his conversion he had led the ordinary life of the young man of good birth at that time; he was somewhat vain of his appearance, he had wenched and gambled; but at least on one occasion he had shown rare magnanimity and he had always been honourable, loyal, generous and brave. The Summing Up
  • Sea battles and voyages and plunder and buried treasure and king's pardons and kidnapped wenches.
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • Wenchuan to Dujiangyan sections 1 - 8 pm daily and the prohibition a large flatbed truck traffic exceeded.
  • My older brother-well, he may have the law behind him, but he was a wencher and a ne'er-do-well when I left, and I haven't heard he's improved. Oathbreaker
  • Belle's wean might be "a tinker's brat" in whispered corners in byres and hay-sheds, where the wenches could claver out of hearing, but the The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • Aaron's craft hovered overhead, and wenched down its load. Beowulf's Children
  • I mourned for thy sake that thou wert not the dullest wench in the land, for then thou hadst been spared thy miseries, thou hadst been saved the torture-boot of a lost love and a disacknowledged wifedom. Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"
  • Stairs, that the wench might embark on the Tay from Perth; and I know for certainty, for I made inquiry, that she sailed in a gabbart for Dundee. The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
  • Teams of horses and oxen are born under the Twins, and well-hung wenchers and those who bedung both sides of the wall. Satyricon
  • My way was yet to make in the world; to saddle myself with a dowerless wench -- even a wench whose least 'Good-morning' set a man's heart hammering at his ribs -- would have been folly, Master The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
  • Ruth Wallis still has the sauciest inflatable raft song with "He's got the cutest little dinghy in the Navy", but Wenche Myhre wins the "peppiest and pizazziest delivery of a rubber flotation device song" hands DOWN. Archive 2009-03-01
  • There was all the people in the windows and piazzas to the back of the house, in their night-clothes, some screeching as if they had fits; and there was the nigger-wench in her white shimmey, dancing a rigadoon on the grass, and pulling out her wool, and thumping herself like a possessed body in the New Testament. Tales of Glauber-Spa
  • I was gravely instructing Dorcas above stairs, and wondering what would be the subject of the conversation to which the wench was to be a witness, when these outcries reached my ears. Clarissa Harlowe
  • There goes a mettled wench," said Lance; "and now, naunt, give me the old broadsword -- it is above the bed-head -- and my wood-knife; and I shall do well enough. Peveril of the Peak
  • The epifocus is in Wenchuan. What a horrible scene it was after it! Mountains broke. Rivers stopped. countless houses fell down.
  • Before the night is out they will no doubt have all found the attentions of a pretty young serving wench.
  • In the former, the Chesterfieldian lover was seen handing his _chere amie_ (a lusty wench, with red ochre cheeks) over a remarkably low stile: whether the subject, or the manner of its execution had inspired the muse, is no matter; but beneath was the following: -- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew’s motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups. Quentin Durward
  • When I served with the mercenaries of Corinthia, we swilled and wenched all night and fought all day -- aye, blood ran down the channels of our swords. Conan the Freebooter
  • You wenched and fought and sang and gorged and swilled and adventured, you were a hard worker when we needed work done and a better yet man to have at my back when we needed that and in your rough gruff style a pretty good husband and father whenever we settled down a while. The Boat of a Million Years
  • Roused by the sight of one ‘winsome wench’ among the old beldams, Tam shouts to her.
  • a medieval prototype of Winkle, is explained as for "periwinkle," whereas it is a common Middle-English word, existing now in the shortened form wench, and means Child. The Romance of Names
  • ''I would that there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting...'' Archive 2006-07-01
  • They didn't tell me that I'd be the only woman there, apart from two serving wenches who disappeared the minute those dinner plates hit the table.
  • This exiled Queen of the Sky Realm mayst not be suble, but I be not one of thy serving wenches! TWQ: Every TV Episode
  • When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
  • Smiling brightly, the buxom wench dipped a courtesy to them both as she pocketed their payment.
  • It wur i 'furrin' lands, owd wench, i 'a desert island i' th 'midst o' th 'sea. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
  • He even proposed to that wench and wanted to start a family!
  • The Bengal name Hari is supposed to come from _haddi_, a bone; the Hari is the bone-gatherer, and was familiar to early settlers of Calcutta under the quaint designation of the 'harry-wench,' [229] In the Central Provinces sections of the The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • Pirate Wench, yes ... the copay is very expensive ... it's moider. More Elections - Swampland - TIME.com
  • John Major in the life of John the monk, that lived in the days of Theodosius, commends the hermit to have been a man of singular continency, and of a most austere life; but one night by chance the devil came to his cell in the habit of a young market wench that had lost her way, and desired for God's sake some lodging with him. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Twelfth day the fiddler lays his head in the lap of some one of the wenches, and the _mainstyr fiddler_ asks who such a maid, or such a maid, naming all the girls one after another, shall marry, to which he answers according to his own whim, or agreeable to the intimacies he has taken notice of during the time of merriment, and whatever he says is absolutely depended upon as an oracle; and if he couple two people who have an aversion to each other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth; this they call "cutting off the fiddler's head," for after this he is dead for a whole year. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
  • And after all a wench is a commonish sort of a object, and even the wench the lad's in love with is Aunt Rachel
  • But yet in fine (turning earnest to a iest) he pardoned all the parties, and aduanced the wench to high honor, farre aboue those that had rule of hir afore, so that she ruled them (willed they nilled they:) for he vsed hir as his paramour, till he maried the foresaid Alfred. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • Steph, will you call the wench and plan something, we are so hermitish these days. Procratina-meme - And She Knits Too!
  • Then the Governor’s wife arose and stripped her of her jewels and silken raiment and, clothing her in petticoat-trousers of sack-cloth and a shift of hair-cloth, sent her down into the kitchen and made her a scullery-wench, saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • For my part I cannot understand how a gentleman like Sowerby can like to see his property go into the hands of a gallipot wench whose money smells of bad drugs. Framley Parsonage
  • Cow-eyed, you called the wench; but cows have horns, Krindlesyke
  • The son is a gambler, a spendthrift, and a wencher, while they say the father is a villain, a miser, and a tightass. Unforseen Return
  • Haunted by having caused the death of a baby brother and believing himself forever unforgiven by his beloved and loving mother, he frittered himself away as a minor actor in his father's company, boozing and wenching.
  • These are wenches and they are always seeking only pelf. So No More He'll Go A-Roving
  • But now, so uncertain are our tempers, and so much do we at different times differ from ourselves, she would hear of no mitigations; nor could all the affected penitence of Honour, nor all the entreaties of Sophia for her own servant, prevail with her to desist from earnestly desiring her brother to execute justiceship (for it was indeed a syllable more than justice) on the wench. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • “There goes a mettled wench,” said Lance; “and now, naunt, give me the old broadsword — it is above the bed-head — and my wood-knife; and I shall do well enough.” Peveril of the Peak
  • Yes, I met him sneaking through the lanes and bye passages with a common minstrel wench, with her messan and her viol on his one arm and her buxom self hanging upon the other. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • One called a wench, his shovel; she called him, her peal: one named his, my slipper; and she, my foot: another, my boot; she, my shasoon. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Thou mayst perchance have seen me also have a fancy to play at trap-ball, or to kiss a serving wench, or to guzzle ale and eat toasted cheese in a porterly whimsy; but is it fitting thou shouldst remember such follies? Peveril of the Peak
  • She just smiled and shrugged, ‘I don't mind all that much, I deal with men like you all the time; we all do, us tavern wenches.’
  • Among other discourse, my cozen Roger told us a thing certain, that the Archbishop of Canterbury; that now is, do keep a wench, and that he is as very a wencher as can be; and tells us it is Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
  • Gord teased* "You'll guzzle down a gallon of ale a day for the rest of a long life and never grow fat " you work it off nightly bawdstrot-tlng each willing wench you meet. Night Arrant
  • That leaves me enough gold left over for a flagon of cheap wine, a belly full of hot mutton and a roll or two with a lusty wench! Archive 2009-03-01
  • Wine and wench empty men's purse.
  • A thousand, two thousand dollars -- maybe three, for a choice mustee wench, fancy-bred, only nineteen, and schooled in a New Orleans brothel! Flash For Freedom
  • Thou mayst perchance have seen me also have a fancy to play at trap - ball, or to kiss a serving wench, or to guzzle ale and eat toasted cheese in a porterly whimsy; but is it fitting thou shouldst remember such follies? Peveril of the Peak
  • His eyes are like a balance, apt to propend each way, and to be weighed down with every wench's looks, his heart a weathercock, his affection tinder, or naphtha itself, which every fair object, sweet smile, or mistress's favour sets on fire. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And Messer Giojoso, full of parental indignation at this gross treatment of his child, and outraged chastity at the notion of a young man of churchly aims, as were mine, being in perversive dalliance with that peasant-wench, repaired straight to my mother with the story of it, which I doubt not lost nothing by its repetition. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers,(Sentencedict) Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • John wenched her as she digested the face that she was legally free of Matt Burnwood. The Witness
  • A Gentleman going to England has for sale, a Negro-wench, with her child, about 26 years of age, who understands thoroughly every kind of house-work, particularly washing and cookery: And a stout Negro -- boy, 13 years old: Also a good horse, cariole and harness. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
  • Your father was a dog and your mother was lower than the wenches who peddle their assets in Boruva!
  • You want to truly have a liking for that wench, use these three recruit, not in about a annual, inevitable successful!
  • The boss is a friendly Norwegian and the working wenches are usually lively and cheerful.
  • On the other hand, this site says 'Blouse' has for 300 years or more been English slang for a very unseemly woman, from 'blowze', which was slang for a slovenly woman, prostitute or 'beggars wench' as the OED quaintly puts it. Pen-Elayne on the Web
  • “I should have said so too,” quoth Sigismund, “for I had peeped into her bedroom before she went thither, and it was so bedizened that a queen or a princess might have slept in it and why should the wench get out of her good quarters, with all her friends about her to guard her, and go out to wander in the forest?” Anne of Geierstein
  • I resent being called a wench and besides I think you're the slut, Tiffany!
  • He took it into his head at one time that he ought to be married, and having got the consent of a haverel wench to yoke with him in the silken bonds of matrimony, went to the minister several times, and asked him to perform the ceremony. Spare Hours
  • In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment.
  • Hobbs tells the king that he is "a frank franion, a merry companion, and loves a wench well. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • Many towns and villages around Wenchuan County have been leveled to the ground, a staff officer of an armed police troop said.
  • A slender one, boyish of waist and of wit, For wencher as well as for sodomite fit. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
  • I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting — Hark you now! The Winter’s Tale
  • Since I hadn't had one, I had to choose at random, and said it had been when I'd first watched blacks being packed aboard on the Dahomey coast, bucks to starboard, wenches to port with the shapeliest females nearest the hatches, for convenience, but I didn't mention that. THE NUMBERS
  • Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: -- "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench? The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • I know I was not alone in hesitating, in having to fight very hard against those qualifications, the dreaded "even thoughs" of "I am great BUT NOT THAT GREAT please don't think I am bragging I am sure most other people in the world are way greater than me please don't hate me for being such a boastful wench. The Awesome Movement and the Dreaded Even Thoughs
  • She had been farm-servant to my mother's brother -- James Hepburn, thy great-uncle as was; she were a poor, friendless wench, a parish 'prentice, but honest and gaum-like, till Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • When I served with the mercenaries of Corinthia we swilled and wenched all night and fought all day The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
  • I drank and gambled and wenched, and had the bad grace to stay in the top ten percent of my class. The Legacy of Heorot
  • An old fellow, as Lycistrata confesseth in [5879] Aristophanes, etsi sit canus, cito puellam virginem ducat uxorem, and 'tis no news for an old fellow to marry a young wench: but as he follows it, mulieris brevis occasio est, etsi hoc non apprehenderit, nemo vult ducere uxorem, expectans vero sedet; who cares for an old maid? she may set, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
  • A serving wench brought us flagons of watered beer.
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • Bozo The Neoclown says: president obama really expects the teabagging tards to be thankful when this wench is their leader? Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts.
  • Lady’s Stairs, that the wench might embark on the Tay from Perth; and I know for certainty, for I made inquiry, that she sailed in a gabbart for Dundee. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • I follow his footsteps, thrusting my codpiece towards maidens and wenches alike, my tasselled loafers pounding the aged cobblestones, my tights itching my thighs.
  • Arach and Hawkke turned their head to the door, listening to the woman's pace dying away in the corridor, and then two trails of scarlet blemished her opaline cheeks, as she understood what that silly wench had believed she had seen.
  • May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
  • Instead of her I have only met a Parisian wench and a Perigordian Abbé. Candide
  • I'm a paladin, not some whore or bar wench, I need nothing from either of you.
  • He had a youthful face, not yet weathered like the rest and whenever ashore was quite popular with maidens and wenches alike.
  • When I served with the mercenaries of Corinthia we swilled and wenched all night and fought all day - aye, blood ran down the channels of our swords. The Conan Chronicles
  • How this woman's life evolved from serving wench to mother of the Roman Emperor, including her conversion to Christianity when being a Christian carried a death sentence, the finding of the True Cross under three centuries of debris, her association with the construction workers who were assisting her in building a church at Calvary is the fascinating story of Santa Elena, which can be found in Mexico Connect at SANTA ELENA, DISCOVERER OF THE HOLY CROSS The Day Of The Holy Cross - May 3rd
  • Pretend that it does not exist and glory in the original barbarian and his slaying, reaving, wenching, pirating and thieving, often with a woman to match him at his side. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Standing within earshot of a lute will cause some people to regress to the level of a medieval simpleton who uses the word "mayhap" in sentences, refers to women as "comely wenches" and pretends not to understand what a radio (or "sorcerous talking box") is. Word Magazine - Comments
  • Plus, shopping malls were still pretty rare. what's the point of dressing to impress, if there's nowhere to go? hence, nomadic wenches took to the road, 'gittin' their kicks on route sixty-six', so to speak. American Graffiti
  • The door opened after a brief tap and the wench with the cardboard box came in.
  • Beer wenches are scantily clad women paid about $60 an hour to be at the beck and call of cricket-watching men who don't want to queue for beer.
  • They always do that, the saucy wenches, they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back.
  • But he makes no more of doubt to say that the Archbishop is a wencher, and known to be so, which is one of the most astonishing things that I have heard of, unless it be, what for certain he says is true, that my Lady Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 55: July 1667
  • The patronas call them chacha, gata, or criada - roughly translatable as wench.
  • Wencher and Tribe of Lot alike enamouring, She comes: and say to him who dares claim lore of love The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Even while the German wench was recovering her breath afterwards and ringing for refreshments, I was limbering up on the rug, trying out my old round-arm swing; I even got some of her sisters in to throw oranges to me for catching practice, and you never saw anything jollier than those painted dollymops scampering about in their corsets, shying fruit. Flashman's Lady
  • On her arrival in London the country wench of Michaelmas Term is immediately given the advice by her pander that ‘Virginity is no city trade’.
  • He was the manifest ruffian, wencher, whoremonger, and most infamous cuckold-maker that ever breathed. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • I have not slept in a solid bed for three weeks, you haughty wench, and I'll not have your condescending airs and your reproachful glances!
  • Circe, enrag'd to be so affronted, had recourse to revenge, and calling the grooms that belong'd to the house, made them give me a warming; nor was she satisfi'd with this, but calling all the servant-wenches, and meanest of the house, she made 'em spit upon me. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
  • Her husband was then a prosperous grocery store owner, dead now poor soul, she blessed him, though he had been a card player and wencher who never thought to put aside for hard times.
  • He babbled, carrying on like some serving wench with good gossip, unable to stop his own blether, until she ducked her shoulder away from his touch. Healing the Highlander
  • I wouldn't run out permanent on my best friend, even if he is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a drunk and an incorrigible wencher. The Time of the Transference
  • My father is very anxious, I think, to act the play; my mother, to have it published before it is acted; and I sit and hear it discussed and praised and criticised, only longing (like a "silly wench," as my mother calls me when I confess as much to her) to see my father in his lovely dress and hear the _alarums of my fifth act_. Records of a Girlhood
  • So I got on to one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o 'the rest o' the outfit was a fixing the saddles and greasing the wagon. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
  • Mr Mwencha said payments for share allotments is expected to be completed over a maximum period of 12 months commencing in January.
  • The "bad" bonnet must sink the large souled Grecian to a cinder-wench, make the Frenchwoman a trapes from the Palais Royal, our fair astronomer a gipsy of Greenwich Park, and the fate-foretelling sybil Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841
  • directions" torn from the parcel by Railway borne, announced by the postman who knocked in the morn, awaking the _gourmand_ all forlorn, who dreamed of the table where diners sat, served by the cooking-wench florid and fat of the dame with the crumpled hat, wife of the porter who "found" the "birds" in the Babel where lost was the label addressed to the friend who expected the Grouse that _Jack_ shot! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
  • A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew's motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups. Quentin Durward
  • This ready, though raw wench, gave an instance of this, and improved on the dropsical hint I had given her. Clarissa Harlowe
  • This Thenardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a fishwife. Les Miserables
  • “You were as drunk as a lord last time I saw you, and about to go off to the bawdyhouse with that wench…Lord, she had an arse on her,” he added reminiscently. A Wicked Gentleman

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