wash-day

I mean, I'm sure if I looked under the cushions here at the hacienda or started rolling the coins in the fifty-five gallon drums I use to hold my wash-day pocket change, I could come up with a million or two.

Random thoughts from a Disordered Mind. Don Lewis 2008

By mid-morning, it was all washed and wrung dry and hanging up in the garden, and Eleanor was scrubbing the kitchen floor, exactly as she usually did on wash-day, though it wasn't often that she was done this early.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Sarah, Margherita and Elizabeth chattered away like a trio of old gossips on wash-day, while Marina ate until she couldn't eat any more, feeling completely hollow after all her exertion.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Molly had no idea whether he cared about wash-day challenges, and she knew he had already done most of his gift shopping for Michael, so maybe this class was of limited interest to him.

Father Christmas Arnold, Judith 1997

He says there was always tripe for Sunday mornings, and corned beef and cabbage on Mondays, and Monday was wash-day!

The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey

The clothes were not laundered each week, but were saved up often for several weeks or even a month or two, and then came a wash-day frolic.

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

The two ladies even instituted "wash-day," and when a number of garments were hung on lines to dry, the camp looked like some summer colony of pleasure-seekers, out for a holiday.

Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Elinor busied herself serving the wash-day dessert into china saucers.

The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Katherine Stokes

"Well, for one thing -- wash-day doesn't make you irritable, as it used to do," I said.

Paula the Waldensian Eva Lecomte

This was a dish Margaret used to make on wash-day and house-cleaning day, and such times when everybody was busy and no one wanted to stop and go to market to buy anything for luncheon.

A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl Caroline French Benton