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Hasina Bano, a silk-factory worker from Ramanagaram, says that, for her, the most difficult aspect of microfinance is that debts can become public knowledge in the community.

Group Borrowing Leads to Pressure 2009

The corporators of the smaller concern included an editor, a messenger, silk-factory employee, and laundry employee; those of the larger, a liquor dealer, two actors and three composers of popular songs.

The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress George Edmund Haynes 1920

She was a worker in a great silk-factory, and was happy and contented, so it seemed, till -- well!

The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

There she lived long after her butterfly days were over; and in a way -- although the Castle of the Butterfly is a silk-factory now -- she lives there still: just as another light lady beautiful, Queen

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

I was in a silk-factory once, and there were rooms full of shelves all covered with leaves, and worms eating them so fast that it made a rustle.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

Lycosa accepts without hesitation any strange pill which she is, given in exchange for her own; she confuses alien produce with the produce of her ovaries and her silk-factory.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Moreover, amongst other things he had started glass-works, sugar-works, a silk-factory, a post-office, laid down fir plantations in drift-sand, not to mention many other wonderful things, all of which had come to grief.

A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864

I was in a silk-factory once, and there were rooms full of shelves all covered with leaves, and worms eating them so fast that it made a rustle.

Little Men Louisa May Alcott 1860

As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaiter and errand boy.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

My father then went to his daily business at the silk-factory, while I remained behind awhile with my mother, to assist her in clearing out a loft for my uncle's reception, the entrance to which could be concealed.

Jacques Bonneval Anne Manning 1843