The young man glanced at the marmalade jar, at the crooked cloth stained with tea, which hislaundress had spread for his breakfast.
My laundresshad evidently chosen this as a good time for her holiday.
The laundress had only known the old wife as "Mrs Wood.
As her daughters grew older, Currer had to pay a stipulated price for them; yet her notoriety as a laundress of the first class enabled her to put an extra price upon her charges, and thus she and her daughters lived in comparative luxury.
In her younger days Currer had been the housekeeper of a young slaveholder; but of later years had been a laundress or washerwoman, and was considered to be a woman of great taste in getting up linen.
Angelique Prudhomme, Madame Jolicoeur, thirty-two years of age, laundress to all the notables of the town.
The laundress looked at me and smiled; she did not seem to dislike the idea of being put in communication with me.
But the laundress was not the woman to give way to anyone; moreover, she was young and pretty, the marquis old, ugly and crabbed; so that Madame Jolicoeur had the first chance.
The laundress was called from her supper to take away the red table-cloth and the napkin.
The masters took advantage of my age--and then I had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river.
She tells me you have been her laundress for three years and that she pays you a dollar and a half a week.
She is expected to do part of the family mending, keeping table linen and bed linen in good condition, and in some households is expected to wash and iron the napkins and dish-towels, unless a laundress is employed.
The laundress who knows how to take care of herself has a high stool with rungs for her feet, on which she may sit when she is ironing the light pieces.
The evening was raw and chilly, and the laundress had lighted a good fire in the sitting-room grate.
He put the books aside on a little table in a corner of the fire-place, and waited patiently while the laundress finished her work.
The door between the sitting-room and bed-room was half open, and he could see the laundress bustling about, dusting the furniture, and rearranging things that had never been disarranged.
The coachman nodded on his box, the laundress in her tubs, but the cook was spry despite her years.
And when the ancient laundress came by I speculated whether, after a sudden splash, she would emerge a dazzling princess.
With this old lady there lived an old cook, an old second-maid, an old laundress and an old coachman.
In small families where two servants are employed the cook usually is laundress as well.
The laundress may also wash windows or help in other cleaning.
Bella, "and I brought it on by telling you all that stuff my laundress told me.
I might lose a very excellent laundress if you did.
During her absence the doctor had made enquiries of the laundress in regard to the Abbess's symptoms, and had decided that the old lady was suffering from cancer and had not long to live.
That night the girl set fire to her bed, and in the confusion occasioned by the smoke and the alarm she escaped unnoticed into the street, where the laundress awaited her and took her to her house.
The laundress could not always be in attendance, and the narcotics administered to the Abbess dulled her vigilance.
This laundress happened to be an alert and intelligent woman, and she gave the nun all the news she had of the world outside the convent walls.
To consult a man and a heretic horrified the nuns, but the laundress pressed her advice, and finally the bishop was appealed to and was induced, since his sister's life was at stake, to give his consent.
Obtaining a skeleton from the hospital, the doctor took it to the house of the laundress and she conveyed it in a large linen basket to the convent the day after the funeral of the Abbess, and concealed it in the young sister's bed.
With the help of the laundress he devised a plan for escape.
When his laundress emerged from her burrow in the morning to make his kettle boil, he artfully led up to the subject of cellars and furniture; but the two ideas had evidently no connection in her mind.
A laundress in pattens passed in at one door, a newspaper boy issued from another.
He lived in Shoreditch in a tenement dwelling for a whole year to learn how to write it from the laundresses themselves,--he went to tea with a different laundress every afternoon?
I was glad Mr. Aix hadn't made her a laundress or a serio, but something nice and Greek and respectable.
The laundress slipped and tottered through the lane, and round the corner, into the street where the mayor lived; and just as she reached the front of his house, she sank down upon the pavement.
The limbs of the laundress shook under her, and she said, "I have stood too long in the cold water, and I have had nothing to eat the whole day since the morning.
After a while the laundress recovered herself, and they led her to her poor dwelling, and put her to bed.
From this day forward, Raymond of Cabane and Philippa thelaundress rose in the world so rapidly that they had no equal in influence at court.
Rome, and lodged there in great state, his sister Camilla, who had been a laundress and was married to a carpenter.
Upon his being made Pope, the statue of Pasquin was one Night dressed in a very dirty Shirt, with an Excuse written under it, that he was forced to wear foul Linnen, because his Laundress was made a Princess.
The laundress paused to draw breath, and to pour a dose of medicine from one of the bottles on the table.
The laundresswas a long time gone, and Gilbert sat alone in the dismal little bedroom, where there had never been the smallest attempt at comfort since John Saltram had occupied it.
But the laundresscould tell Mr. Fenton very little.
Well, Sirs, a headstrong and ill-advised laundress had taken possession of an elevated terrace in the centre of the town, in order to dry her clothes.
At two o'clock, the post brought the intelligence that the Mussulmans were repulsed, and that the laundress was hanged; though I never knew exactly for what crime, as she certainly was not a debtor of the unhappy firm.
He heard the laundress moving about the chambers preparing his breakfast.
The laundress had an objection to baths, deep-rooted and a matter of principle.
Our laundress is nearly always about, and there is altogether a pleasant suggestion of Oxford and the old days in the life we lead.
I saw our amiable laundressin the passage, on her knees, trying to open an inner door which seemed to be locked.
The laundress pointed dolefully to the locked door: "In there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laundress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dishwasher; scullion; washer
