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  • While serving at Camp Floyd, Seiji's great-great grandfather fell in love with a washer-woman named Mary Taylor, said RaFawn Rogers.

    There's Something About Mary's Scrubbing 2006

  • [Link] In an unexpected twist, Seiji fell in love with a local washer-woman and refused to return to Lehi with his parents.

    There's Something About Mary's Scrubbing 2006

  • “And meantime you take your orders from a washer-woman, you snip of a foreman, on two francs a day.”

    Eve and David 2007

  • “And meantime you take your orders from a washer-woman, you snip of a foreman, on two francs a day.”

    Eve and David 2007

  • And, in fact, one of the town-officers, who had been searching for stolen linen at the cottage of a washer-woman in that village, gave his evidence, that he had seen Maggie Murdockson there, whose presence had considerably increased his suspicion of the house in which she was a visitor, in respect that he considered her as a person of no good reputation.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • The first time she had nearly succeeded, dressed in the clothes of her own washer-woman, but, putting up her hand to prevent one of the boatmen from lifting her veil, the men suspected her, seeing how white it was, and rowed her back again.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • My mom, very practical, turned her nose up and said, "you can't be serious, it looks like a Russian washer-woman dress".

    Another wrap-it-up dress - A Dress A Day 2007

  • The color is not good, but all the rest excellent; and one of these so much-lauded pictures is the portrait of a washer-woman.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • She could have become a washer-woman or a fish-sealer.

    The Last of the Wilds Canavan, Trudi 2006

  • Jacob and a faithful old washer-woman, with no roof to her mouth, were aware of me as Miss Castlewood.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

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