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Examples
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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.
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[Link] In an unexpected twist, Seiji fell in love with a local washer-woman and refused to return to Lehi with his parents.
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“And meantime you take your orders from a washer-woman, you snip of a foreman, on two francs a day.”
Eve and David 2007
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“And meantime you take your orders from a washer-woman, you snip of a foreman, on two francs a day.”
Eve and David 2007
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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.
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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.
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My mom, very practical, turned her nose up and said, "you can't be serious, it looks like a Russian washer-woman dress".
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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.
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She could have become a washer-woman or a fish-sealer.
The Last of the Wilds Canavan, Trudi 2006
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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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