We found more than half the inhabitants at work: laundressesbending over their tubs, cabinet-makers at their lathes, cobblers on their benches.
The laundresses and ladies of the regiment were on board, except the general’s sister, Margaret, who made her first march with her husband, riding all the way on horseback.
If the laundresses had a serious difficulty, he was asked to settle it.
The servants and the company laundresses are mentioned as being entitled to quarters and rations and to the services of the surgeon.
Thus started, they struck each other as laundresses strike their linen, in measured cadence.
To have been one of the most flourishing laundresses in Paris and then to make her bed in the gutter?
At that time Negroes dwelt near the whites as barbers, caterers, and coachmen, as laundresses and waiting-maids.
There he is again,' said two laundresses conversing on a doorstep.
In 1831, the whole of the Seventh Infantry was ordered to Fort Gibson and the officers reported the interior of the stockade much overcrowded by the host of officers and men, laundresses and servants.
On Monday mornings do colored laundresses push worn baby-carts around to gather what we were pleased to call the "dirty filth"?
And do these same laundresses push back these self-same carts later in the week with "clean filth" aboard?
The chamberlain by virtue of his office had also to provide the laundresses and superintend their work.
Then there were the massive blue army wagons, which were also heavily loaded; the laundresses with their children and belongings were placed in these.
One of the laundresseslet me have her daughter for nurserymaid, and our small establishment at Camp MacDowell moved on smoothly, if not with elegance.
At times we washed our clothing in the streams, for the laundresses did not perform that work on a march and were never with the troops except when changing stations.
Some very carefullaundresses put the linen into a canvas bag to protect it from the scum and the sides of the copper.
He himself wore flannel shirts then, not nice frock-coats such as he has now, but the flannel shirts weren't because he was poor, but so as not to frighten the laundresses by looking too smart.
And I do think, considering the advertisement he gave them, the laundresses might have taken more trouble with the poor man's shirts!
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?
There's more danger in these femmes de chambre, laundresses and scullery Cinderellas than in a column of glittering steel.
Daringly attempt to approach the throne with this startling budget of information; impulsively seek the princess; or whisper it over his cups among the femmes de chambre, laundresses or scullery maids?
Most of the so-called 'wheaten starch' of commerce used by laundresses is now prepared from rice.
The bluish-white starch used by laundresses is coloured with a mixture of smalts and alum in water, and is regarded as unfit for medicinal purposes.
To have been one of the most prosperous laundresses in the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or and to end beside the gutter!
Now her only customers were those who didn't pay regularly, the street-walkers, and women like Madame Gaudron, whose laundry smelled so bad that not one of the laundresses on the Rue Neuve would take it.
Some laundresses charged a sou more for each item.
As he crossed the path of light he would stretch his neck to look in, startled by the sound of the thudding irons, and carry with him the quick glimpse of bare-shouldered laundresses immersed in a rosy mist.
Of a celebrated trout fisherman it was once said that all he required was a little damp spot, and forthwith he caught a trout; and the Mentone laundresses seem to consider that only a little damp spot is needed for their daily labors.
The poor little rills do a dozen tasks before they reach the laundresses and the beach.
Just as her sisters had been, she too was taunted by the laundresses regarding her choice of a husband, but her answer to them was very different.
The statistics of the London Fever Hospital show that laundresses are more liable to contract typhoid fever than the immediate attendants upon the sick.
I told Sandy when I returned to my quarters that I did not mind his having all the sugar he wanted himself but I did not want to feed all the laundresses at the post on cut loaf sugar.
He did better afterwards but I still think the laundresses got some sugar.
The laundresses had poured into the Temple, and were pretending to dust their master's chambers and performing the rest of their desultory duties, prior to the bustle of business commencing in those "dusty purlieus of the law.
Temple, and away from the glances of the lawyers, porters, and laundresses did she collect her wits and walk with due calmness of mien.
Such a situation makes it difficult for southern Negro laundresses to live comfortably and healthfully.
Laundresses in the North are relieved of this problem by going to the homes of employers, but, on the other hand, are affected by the excessive rents and the overcrowding in their own homes.
For example, in the South laundresses for the most part take bundle wash to their small homes, and do large "washes" there.
The belief in spectre laundresses is universal in Brittany.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laundresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
