She was a widow of thirty-six years of age, and was forewoman in the manufactory of artificial flowers carried on by Madame Titreville.
At thirteen years of age she was sent to learn artificial-flower making in the establishment of Madame Titreville, whose forewoman was Madame Lerat, Nana's aunt.
She stammered a few words of entreaty, but the forewoman intimated to her that she must leave the shop at once; moreover, Fantine was but an indifferent workwoman.
No bullying nor entreating of the forewomancould persuade the women to return to work.
And thereafter, for a long time, the many irons rose and fell, the pace of the room in no wise diminished; while the forewoman strode the aisles with a threatening eye for incipient breakdown and hysteria.
The women at the boards near to her scrambled, first, to the hot iron to save the cloth, and then to her, while the forewoman hurried belligerently down the aisle.
The tireless, vigilant forewoman kept a sharp lookout for incipient hysteria, and once led a narrow-chested, stoop-shouldered young thing out of the place in time to prevent a collapse.
The forewomanlooked at him in a strange way, but asked him, none the less, in a polite tone, what he wanted.
The forewoman eyed the individual who had struck an attitude a la Spartacus in the centre of the shop, where he stared at one after another without speaking, and said to him: "Will monsieur kindly tell us what he would like?
All the girls in the shop laughed aloud; but the forewoman assumed a sour expression as she rejoined: "Did monsieur take this for a hat-shop?
Certainly we keep them, monsieur," the forewoman instantly answered.
When trouble threatened in the workroom, it was to Mrs. McChesney that the forewoman came.
I'll probably hug the forewoman and bite a piece out of the first Featherloom I lay hands on.
Had Madame discharged her on the spot she would not have been surprised, and it was with a sensation of relief that she presently saw the forewoman measuring a dose of aromatic spirits of ammonia, and heard that the crisis was passing.
Of all the women employed in the house, this particularforewoman was the only one who appeared to Gabriella to be without pretence or affectation.
But, as though quickly to establish the law of averages, his head forewoman counterbalanced all his mercies by her ferocious crossness.
She has only just come in and the poison of the forewoman has not yet stung her into ill nature.
I soon found in every case that the methods proposed by the forewoman were in the end those whereby I could do the greatest amount of work with the least effort.
When I have fitted 110 dozen tin caps the forewoman comes and changes my job.
I get a broom and for some time make sweeping a necessity, but the forewoman is watching me.
The forewoman lends me a blue gingham dress and tells me I am to do "piece"-work.
I can hear the sharp, nasal voices of the forewoman and the girls shouting questions and answers.
About eleven the head forewoman stops in to eat a plate of rice and milk.
Naturally theforewoman was the spokeswoman for the girls.
The indignation of the forewoman at the suggestion of five cents a month dues would have been amusing if it had not revealed her utter blindness to the poverty of the girls.
The latter had been rendered very uncomfortable by the deportment of his lordship, and was only too glad to retire, leaving the forewoman alone with Lord Linden.
The forewoman reluctantly left the room, looking puzzled, curious, and indignant.
The forewoman and Maurice had only taken a few steps when they encountered him.
This order was so pointedly a dismissal that the forewoman had no excuse to linger.
You see sewing is not very profitable ordinarily unless you can do high up dressmaking or are forewoman in some factory, and I couldn't sew for a living.
When it was all settled the forewoman was called, who ushered Marguerite upstairs into the fitting room where two tall mirrors gave the place twice the size.
The forewoman rather surmised what the trouble was and smiled behind the shelter of her newspaper.
You no right to come here; you not my forewoman now.
Julie, for twenty years I have beenforewoman of my department over there in the factory.
Julie, Julie, listen to me," cried the forewoman almost in despair.
During this outburst the forewoman sat quietly watching the indignant faces before her.
Yes, it is perfectly true," replied the forewoman calmly.
Presently the girls cast aside napkins and lunch boxes and moved toward the corner of the room where their forewoman was waiting.
Seeing that she was her own calm self again, the forewoman said gently: "My poor child, again I say that I wish you had told me a week ago.
The forewoman was right: the sewing on of the spangles was inexcusably bad.
The forewoman was described, and her domestic troubles lightly sketched (Miss Rabbit's father backed horses, excepting when they came in first).
What do you think the name of the forewoman at our place of business is?
Only to a very moderate extent," replied the forewoman precisely.
He used to employ a forewoman to cut and superintend.
The girls earn from $5 to $6 a week; the forewoman something more.
Her forewoman sometimes assists in cutting the figures.
The forewoman told me that a smart hand, working in good leaf, and having constant employment, can earn from $3 to $5 a week.
Some of his girls earn on an average $7--a forewoman more.
His forewoman directs some of the trimmings, but part are left to the taste of the girls.
It is usual for the forewoman to do the cutting, and she can earn from $6 to $12.
A forewoman had the superintendence, who assisted the workers in weighing the tobacco, and keeping an account of the amount given each.
All the demoiselle's customers declined giving orders elsewhere until the forewoman from Paris had exhibited to the natives of Pisa the latest fashions from the metropolis of the world of dress.
At the height of the demoiselle's prosperity her skilled forewoman and cutter-out basely married and started in business as her rival.
I only came to know if there was any work for me to-day," said the girl, in a very sweet voice, that trembled a little as she tried to face the fashionable French forewoman again.
Even the master-stroke of replacing the treacherous Italian forewoman by a French dressmaker, engaged direct from Paris, did not at first avail to elevate the great Grifoni establishment above the reach of minor calamities.
Two months at the baths of Lucca restored the newforewoman to health.
The satin-tufted box she was working on dropped from her fingers and clattered on the floor, bringing the forewoman down upon her with many caustic remarks.
He did not ask many questions; but presently he sent one typewriter flying up-stairs for the superintendent, and the other was sent to ask of the forewoman if all the jobs were filled.
On this morning the forewomanwas obliged to give her repeated and sharp reproofs for soiling her materials and for dawdling over her work.
On her recovery she entered another factory, where the hours are not so excessive, the treatment is fair, and she has now an excellent position as forewoman at $18 a week.
Not long afterwards, overhearing a forewoman lamenting the absence of machine operatives, she observed that she could run a sewing-machine at home.
The forewoman gave her in the course of the day 28 bundles, each containing 28 corset covers with the belts basted to the waist lines and the loose ends of the belts basted ready to finish.
The instant Anna failed to complete this amount, or seemed to drop behind in the course of the day, the forewoman blamed her, and threatened to reduce her wage.
In the pencil factory of her first employment there was constant danger of catching her fingers in the machinery; the air was bad; the forewoman was harsh and nagging, and perpetually hurrying the workers.
She thought the forewoman was prejudiced against her, and naturally could not understand the truth that from the standpoint of modern industry she was aged at forty-five.
When the forewoman blamed Theresa for finishing less work than these girls, she freely expressed her contempt for their slovenly belts.
So that in changing bobbins alone the girls have to stoop down over 2000 times a day, without counting all the stooping for knot tying, which the forewoman said would about equal the labor of bending and working at bobbin changing.
The forewoman smiled at me, and remarked that that was so frequent that it attracted no notice.
Another forewoman gave it as her deliberate opinion that when overtime is worked the piece workers do not make more as a rule, for they get so tired that if they stay late one night, they work less the next day.
Sometimes they are taught by a forewoman or experienced hand.
Two of the relief stamping presses looked very heavy indeed, and the forewoman said that they were really men's work.
Tuesday to Friday are busy days, and the forewoman employs some married women who come in as long as they are wanted.
The forewoman in the book-folding department said that time hands got 4d.
Another forewomanin work stated she was in training for four years: two years at bookbinding, one year at vellum work, and one year at stationery.
The under-forewoman said that working the treadle for paging was very hard work.
The forewoman said she did not care to take learners now; "they are more trouble than they are worth.
The forewomanemployed by the latter firm said that she did not know these girls had been working all day, or she would not have admitted them.
Footnote 31: It is important to note in connection with this point that the power of a forewoman over women is generally more unquestioned than that of a foreman over men.
The forewoman of a large stationery department stated that only three out of twenty girls under her had to depend on their own wages.
The forewoman of the folding and sewing, where overtime was worked, said that her girls disliked overtime very much; and she did not think it worth while working them, as they could do less work next day in consequence.
There are two girls now on the black-bordering machine whom the forewoman has offered to teach to place out by hand, but they won't learn it; it is too much trouble.
The forewoman of the book-folding and sewing department, who had had some experience of married jobbers, said that they would not do ordinary work at ordinary rates, as they did not consider it worth their while.
The forewoman in the book-folding department said they only had in job hands about twice a year.
She had been forewoman in a factory before her husband's death, having supported him through his last year of life, working all day and nursing him at night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forewoman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
