She wanted to rave like a fishwife--though there were nofishwives in Mayfair.
She knew then that she had raved like a fishwife--that, even though there had before been no fishwives in Mayfair, he saw one standing shrilling before him.
The fishwives were very busy standing behind the marble slabs with short thick knives, with which they cut off pieces of the large fish when the customer didn't want a whole one, and laughing and joking with every one.
I did not believe this when it was told me; so I stopped three fishwives one day, and without mincing matters put the question direct to them.
Immediately the jollyfishwives caught sight of me, and began to nod and smile.
Whoever would see the Newhaven fishwives at their best must be on the Newhaven wharf by seven o'clock in the morning, on a day when the trawlers come in and the fish is sold.
His portraits of gentlefolk are true and noble, but hardly so expressive as those of fishwives and tavern heroes.
The fishwives of Scheveningen, I am told, carry the art of petticoat wearing to a higher point than any of their sisters.
Johnson approached the fishwives at Billingsgate to purchase of their wares.
At this style of language the fishwives are said to be extremely proficient.
The fishwives keep up a constant clatter of talk, in voices made shrill by their daily cry of "Fe-esh, caller fe-esh!
At that festival the parish priests bless the waters which give such a rich harvest of fish, and the fishermen and fishwives in large numbers share in the religious ceremony.
Orange-groves abound and vineyards carpet the landscape, while the stately liner sends her bow-wave swishing at the bare feet of fishwives who are handling catches as they were handled in the days of Jesus.
No fishwives or painters shall intrude upon his polished scenes; all shall be as genteel as himself.
The fishwives unite the colors of the rainbow--" Lady Bar.
The fishwiveswere a most sturdy and independent class, both in manners and language.
Their skins were clear and ruddy, and many of the young fishwives were handsome and pretty.
She kept away from the shore and the old sailors now, and from the garrulous fishwives of the town.
They talked with the fishwives also in the town, and made friends with the bairns, who, as the days grew milder, came in flocks to their favourite playground, the sands above the town.
A NEW YEAR'S CAROL, For theFishwives of Newcastle.
Of Fishwives tee, that's i' wor toon, up to the present day, Euphy Scott she is prime minister to Queen Madgie Gray.
Midford 137 New Year's Carol for theFishwives of Newcastle, M.
The fishwives from the Marche St. Jean offered salted herrings to all comers, poisoning the air and disgusting the nostrils, while on their track followed limonadiers with overtopping tanks, rattling their cups and hawking their beverage.
Fishwives and washerwomen retailed to all comers the latest alarms.
The fishwives of Boulogne had heard what was doing across the Channel, and were on the lookout.
Loudly they proclaimed that none but themselves, the fishwives of Boulogne, should help the soeurs Anglaises.
He had been chaffering with the fishwives this very day, and was bringing back his provend with him when he visited our school.
Among the fishwives of the Gammel Strand there was always lively stir, for their fisk must early find a buyer, and by midday they themselves must be back to their nets and boats.
If ever the craze for pedestrianism should culminate in an international team race for ladies, the fishwives of Vigo would be a "very strong tip.
And he struggled in vain to pierce the dense mass of Parabolani and monks, who, mingled with the fishwives and dock-workers, leaped and yelled around their victim.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fishwives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
