peasant-woman

Presently she saw them all and recognized them; so she veiled and cloaked face and body and went out and stood in the door, looking at her husband and his brother and the thief and the peasant-woman; but they could not recognize her.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Yesterday, what did I see? — a peasant-woman washing a pair of breeches on the platform, and a great fat woman she was, and he stood behind her, simply all of a shake with laughter — yes, indeed! ...

A Desperate Character 2006

A peasant-woman stopped for a minute to listen to him, but, not understanding what he said, waved her hand and went on, leaving him alone in the darkness.

A Raw Youth 2003

There was once upon a time a peasant-woman who had a daughter and a step-daughter.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

I beheld a peasant-woman of fifty, bareheaded, in boots, and a sheepskin worn open.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

She was a country peasant-woman and a very talkative one.

Crime and Punishment 2002

“You only have to knock,” the peasant-woman said gruffly.

Maigret and the Old Lady Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1951

A stout peasant-woman, dressed in black, black-haired with scarcely a trace of grey, strongly built and fierce-looking, was busy beating a mattress.

Maigret and the Old Lady Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1951

The crimes of foeticide and infanticide have become so common that there is scarcely a peasant-woman in Portugal not guilty of them, either as principal or accessory.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

During a thunderstorm in France in July, 1858, a peasant-woman, on her way home from the fields, was struck down by lightning.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various