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  • A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!

    The "Cheap Christmas Pudding." 2006

  • Now that I come to think of it, maybe the laundress's animosity didn't stem from a jealous heart after all.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • Poirot retrieved his laundress's communication, apologized gracefully once more, and left the room.

    Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984

  • The laundress's defection and other domestic worries may have had something to do with it.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • A smell like an eating house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!

    Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

  • But she had loned a girl at school five dollars and was going to write for it at once, and thought she could sell a last year's sweater for three dollars to their laundress's daughter.

    Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • But she had loned a girl at school five dollars and was going to write for it at once, and thought she could sell a last year's sweater for three dollars to their laundress's daughter.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • Coupeau, who had been smoking a cigarette on the pavement, had prevailed on her to go inside as she crossed the road returning from taking home a customer's washing; and her large square laundress's basket was on the floor beside her, behind the little zinc-covered table.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!

    The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

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