Washerwoman in example sentence

Several inducements urged Sergeant Hollister to this determination, among which was the absence of the washerwoman, who lay before the kitchen fire, dreaming that the corps was attacking a party of the enemy, and mistaking the noise that proceeded from her own nose for the bugles of the Virginians sounding the charge.

More example sentences with word washerwoman

It was somewhat disturbing that just then the door at the end of the hall opened, the young washerwoman, who seemed to have finished her work, came in and, despite all her caution, attracted the attention of some of the people there.

It was the washerwoman whom K. had recognised as a likely source of disturbance as soon as she had entered.

The washerwoman at Streatley said she felt she owed it to herself to charge us just three times the usual prices for that wash.

The matron, whose name had thus been exalted to an office of such unexpected dignity, ordinarily discharged the duties of a female sutler, washerwoman, and, to use the language of Katy Haynes, petticoat doctor to the troops.

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