country-woman

I went off the deck the sailors began to teaze it — some loved to see its tears and hear it cry; others hated its snotty nose; one who hurt it, being checked by the negro that took care of it, told the slave he was very fond of his country-woman, and asked him if he should not like her for a wife?

Essays 2007

Instead of the prime vegetables more fittingly described by the word primeval, artfully displayed in the window for the delectation of the military man and his fellow country-woman the nursemaid, honest

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

The Scripture says, A prophet has no honour in his oxvn country; but Mr. Grandison has not much from his own country-woman.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

My servant is an old country-woman, ill-natured from stupidity, and, moreover, there is always a nasty smell about her.

Matthew Yglesias » Clunky? 2004

When the apple was ready she painted her face, and dressed herself up as a country-woman, and so she went over the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs.

Household Tales 2003

When he first came to be sold at Rome, they say a snake coiled itself upon his face as he lay asleep, and his wife, who at this latter time also accompanied him in his flight, his country-woman, a kind of prophetess, and one of those possessed with the bacchanal frenzy, declared that it was a sign portending great and formidable power to him with no happy event.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The papers had reported that the cook was a country-woman.

Maigret's Little Joke Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1960

But all they saw was a country-woman hurrying along, a shawl over her head, and a basket under her arm.

Five On A Secret Trail Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1956

Coming from a country-woman of Mr. DANIELS it was doubly exhilarating.

Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Various

And the neat country-woman felt that to walk with this London child through the village of Littlebourne, where every creature, down to the cows and cats and dogs, all knew the lock-keeper's wife, would be a great trial of courage.

Littlebourne Lock F. Bayford Harrison