working-girls

The boats were filled with young people, working-girls and their sweethearts, the latter in their shirt-sleeves, with coats on their arms, tall hats tipped back, and a jaded look.

Yvette 2003

There is the Fan Mail Department of the great studio, into which harelips from Minnesota, lonely cowboys from Montana, crazy adolescent girls from Sweden and other far-off places pour their Dreams, dutifully answered with autographed photos of the stars deposited into the mails by lonely working-girls in Hollywood.

New Novels Decter, Midge 1963

At nine o'clock the work-women arrived, five tall, pale-faced, faded girls, wretchedly dressed, but with their hair becomingly arranged, after the fashion of poor working-girls who go about bare-headed through the streets of Paris.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Women with shopping-bags and bundles, men with newspapers, hatless working-girls; but everywhere were courtesy and low voices.

Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

The need of the ballot for working-girls and those who pay no taxes is not understood.

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 Various

A sudden desire had come to her to eat an ice standing there, as the working-girls of the city stood.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

I see this among the poor working-girls of the city of New York; sick, in a little garret bedroom, perhaps, and although needing medical care and needing food, they will say to me, "above all things else, if I could only pay the rent."

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 Various

There were factories along the banks and for a long time the Chief-Inspector threaded his way through a swarm of working-girls coming out of one of them.

Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931

And yet, all those pretty working-girls grew into dull, misshapen, displeasing women.

The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

And even when I came already home from work, I could only talk to the girls in the working-girls 'boarding house, or shut myself up in my dark, lonesome bedroom.

Hungry Hearts 1920