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  • It bore through the harvest country a smell like a large washing-day, and a sharp issue of steam as from a huge brazen tea-urn.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • After the desperate charge of young Doones had been met by us, and broken, and just as Poor Kit Badcock died in the arms of the dead Charley, I happened to descry a patch of white on the grass of the meadow, like the head of a sheep after washing-day.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day tomorrow, and they want the coppers filled.'

    The internal economy of Dotheboys Hall 2004

  • The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day tomorrow, and they want the coppers filled.'

    Lance Mannion: 2004

  • You see it was washing-day -- and my wife wanted me to go out and bring in a little stove-wood -- you know we lost our help lately, and my wife has to wash and tend to everything about the house herself.

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

  • A plain dinner for washing-day -- a beefsteak and some boiled potatoes, a salad, and a pie or pudding made on the preceding Saturday -- is all that should be required of a maid-of-all-work on Monday.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Two days later was washing-day, and the cook, Aunt Winnie, told her mistress she was too sick to do the very large washing for three boarders besides the family.

    A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

  • She knew which would be absent from drill because it was washing-day, and which was weak for want of food; and she resumed her poaching habits -- only on Uncle James Patten's estate, of course -- and, having beguiled a gunsmith into letting her have an air-gun on credit, she managed to snare and shoot birds enough to relieve their necessities to an appreciable extent.

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

  • At any hour of day or night in the most distant part of your house, you have but to turn a stop-cock and your red dragon sends you hot water for your needs; your washing-day becomes a mere play-day; your pantry has its ever-ready supply; and then, by a little judicious care in arranging apartments and economizing heat, a range may make two or three chambers comfortable in winter weather.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • It happened to be _washing-day_: the washerwoman gave him a pailful of scalding soapsuds to throw on it; but whether he was most afraid of me or of the snake is still a question: however, the washerwoman brought it home with the tongs, and dropped it into the dolly-tub.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various

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