women

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At several other places where I called the women were almost hysterical.

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  • On this occasion the women were agreed that he had done his duty well. —  New Italian sketches
  • In the former case the animation does not usually last very long, and the women is then supposed to die. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
  • 'All the women will be there to watch for the boats, and I will wave my handkerchief for you No,' replied Jack, decidedly, 'I won't have you go so far from Mother in my absence. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • They burned the houses of the patriots, carried off their crops, and killed their cattle, so as to starve their families; but the women were as brave us the men, and from first to last not one of them ever wished her husband or son to give up the fight If the patriots could not conquer the British, they at least kept them in a hornets' nest. —  Strange Stories from History for Young People
  • But the other women were as grateful as if I had rescued their Easter things from a highwayman This was the only place William ever served where the people of the world flocked in and filled his church. —  A Circuit Rider's Wife
 

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