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  • I am foul-faced and a hillwoman, but, as thy talk goes, I have acquired merit.

    Kim 2003

  • At the other end of the room a girl in the vest and baggy trousers of a hillwoman squatted beside a small fire, cooking strips of meat on an iron grid laid over blocks of stone.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • At the other end of the room a girl in the vest and baggy trousers of a hillwoman squatted beside a small fire, cooking strips of meat on an iron grid laid over blocks of stone.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The response was instant The girl smiled broadly with surprise and delight, and, with the disdain of a hillwoman for prudish conventions, promptly yanked off her sleeveless embroidered vest, slipped down her wide trousers and stepped out of them, twitched off her wide-sleeved shirt; and kicked off her sandals.

    Conan the Adventurer Howard, Robert E. 1966

  • At the other end of the room a girl in the vest and baggy trousers of a hillwoman squatted beside a small fire, cooking strips of meat on an iron grid laid over blocks of stone.

    Conan the Adventurer Howard, Robert E. 1966

  • I am foul-faced and a hillwoman, but, as thy talk goes, I have acquired merit.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'A pahareen -- a hillwoman of Dalhousie, my mother.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • ‘A pahareen — a hillwoman of Dalhousie, my mother.

    Kim 2003

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