work-girl

A real work-girl would have been bolder; but Eve, gently bred, and fallen into poverty, resigned herself to her dreary lot.

Two Poets 2007

No one saw him enter it, and the pity that henceforth should shelter David was the most resourceful pity of all — the pity of a work-girl.

Eve and David 2007

A real work-girl would have been bolder; but Eve, gently bred, and fallen into poverty, resigned herself to her dreary lot.

Two Poets 2007

No one saw him enter it, and the pity that henceforth should shelter David was the most resourceful pity of all — the pity of a work-girl.

Eve and David 2007

Raoul had actually smothered himself, like any poor work-girl, with a pan of charcoal.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

‘Oh, I don’t mean that for ME the work-girl would be preferable; by no means; but for a man like Reardon.

New Grub Street 2003

Later on, when he studied medicine, and never had his purse full enough to treat some little work-girl who would have become his mistress?

Madame Bovary 2003

I ought to have looked about for some simple, kind-hearted work-girl; that was the kind of wife indicated for me by circumstances.

New Grub Street 2003

London work-girl is rarely capable of raising herself or being raised, to a place in life above that to which she was born; she cannot learn how to stand and sit and move like a woman bred to refinement, any more than she can fashion her tongue to graceful speech.

New Grub Street 2003

A musician with his instrument in a case, two fat women talking to each other, a little Cockney work-girl, and her young man, and then -- a lady.

The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand