factory-girls

Thus the factory-girls went to the woods on Saturday afternoon for golden-rod and ferns; the humblest families robbed their cottage gardens of the few bright flowers they contained; and the boys gave willing assistance to Etta and her class in arranging and putting up the decorations.

Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

I know one young woman, of about your age, that had to get her own education, who earns a thousand dollars a year by teaching, and I've heard of many factory-girls who support their parents, and lay up a great deal of money, by working in the mills. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Hot water, sugar, 'n' jest a little shavin 'of lemon-skin in it, -- _skin_, mind you, none o' your juice; take it off thin, -- shape of one of them flat curls the factory-girls wear on the sides of their foreheads.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

The Yankee who knows only the forlorn aureoles of wire and greased gauze surrounding the sainted heads of Lowell factory-girls, and the frowsy ones of New

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

Just think of _us_ made to work among factory-girls.

Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

These antics were called morris dances; they were mad, vulgar, joyous abandonment to the mood of the moment; just as the dances performed by little gutter-arabs and factory-girls around street organs are an abandonment to the mood of to-day's moment.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

And behind them come the factory-girls and behind them it all begins again -- the pianoforte-makers, the millers, the saddlers, and the paper-hangers -- banners as far as one can see!

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

The men came shuffling home at a heavy trot, and the factory-girls came rushing in.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

And behind them come the factory-girls and behind them it all begins again -- the pianoforte-makers, the millers, the saddlers, and the paper-hangers -- banners as far as one can see!

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

The men came shuffling home at a heavy trot, and the factory-girls came rushing in.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911