The boy from the Kentucky hills spent all his extra time doing laundry for others for a small fee and we all thought he was just too stupid to know any better.
During training while loading the logs that braced the big guns, I broke a finger on my right hand and consequently had difficulty doing my laundry and writing letters.
When we had Saturday afternoon and Sunday off we wrote 1etters home did laundry and rested.
The Snow-White is probably the most remarkable laundry soap ever manufactured.
This Filka was generally hanging about the laundry playing with the dogs; now he was combed and washed, and was holding an ikon in a tinfoil setting.
After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.
You killed my ancestors in your buckets of laundry soap and slapped them into your palms like a sport.
You kill enough of us when you do your laundry each week.
I see you emptying out puddle-remnants of the previous week's water from your plastic buckets where we are laying our eggs and then pouring in new laundry soap and water.
It did not need the announcement from the wings, "The laundry at Beauty's home.
I asked why cooking was not established as the laundry was, as a distinct public business, and was told that it had been tried a number of times, but had always been found impracticable.
One kind of work in a laundry would suit everyone, but one course of cooking could not.
But just one of Hector's observations struck me particularly: "You know, Marge, there are not many girls in the laundry I would say as much to.
Our skill in creating odd socks and stockings was gratefully recognized by the Amalgamated Hosiers' Institution, who paid the laundry an annual subsidy.
He was saying that in this world gentle methods have effected more than harsh, and added this beautiful thought: "In the ordeal by laundry the soft-fronted often outlasts the starched.
After all, the autobiographist merely does in public what the laundry does in the decent seclusion of its works at Wandsworth or Balham.
It was in my power to marry a man who would become the chairman of a Laundry Company with seventeen different branches.
Even when this work has been banished to a laundry or a house on a back street, it is yet desirable to have some knowledge of its processes, that when something goes wrong we may be able to tell what the trouble is.
Bed linen is changed according to the quantity of linen the housewife possesses, the amount of laundry she can have done, and her own taste in the matter.
Kitchens are no longer used to store winter supplies which must be kept from the cold, nor are they now used for laundry and dairy work, spinning and sociability.
One can keep accounts slowly and laboriously, one can sweep without possessing much tact, one can even cook without possessing a great degree of administrative ability, or do laundry work without a good memory.
A closet in the laundry made especially for the purpose is one solution; a hamper set in some ventilated but secluded spot in the house is another.
Besides there is always danger that they may be brought into the house from a street car or a laundry or some such place.
A sleeve board is likewise a helpful addition to the laundry fittings.
I was taken in to see a laundry not long ago which had pale green walls and two sunny windows.
Such come higher than the better grades of laundry starch in crystals, but it is a question if they are proportionately superior for family use.
The best laundrystarch is in large, hard, flinty crystals; such indicate a stronger starch, containing less moisture than that with small or soft crystals.
The most satisfactory laundry blueing is that which is really and intensely blue in tint, and which is most completely soluble in water, so that it will be well distributed and not make the clothes look streaked.
Laundry starch comes in bulk or boxes, and in paper packages.
At nine o'clock Eldress Abby took Susanna to thelaundry house, and there under a spreading maple were Sue and the two youngest little Shakeresses, children of seven and eight respectively.
At the laundry sink is one of West's lift and force pumps, which draws the water from the cistern.
On one side of the laundry sink there is also one of Kedzie's large size rain-water filters, which holds several pails full of water, and which we commend as an admirable contrivance for the purposes intended.
One suit of pajamas is enough, considering your tent boy's commendable mania for laundry work.
The four men appear at the door, staggering under the weight of the laundry table.
They are making more fuss carrying that laundry table up-stairs than if it were a house; and the worst of it is our husbands are losing their tempers.
It must be awfully trying to have a laundry table fall on you.
There was a division of opinion as to whether laundry men should be classed as merchants and entitled to clerks.
They board vessels in the harbor and solicit laundry work, charging eight cents apiece.
Babus" are men engaged at clerical work, and one has to scan his hotel bill closely before settling, as a babu may add an item to the laundry list or for ice, or even charge for other things that go with hotel accommodation.
You had better stop here for a moment," he said, and walked forward to the laundry door, the hasp of which he lifted after knocking sharply with his staff.
Didn't a certain small missy make an appointment with me to be shown the laundry and its wonders?
If any one had told me a few days ago that I would be sitting on board a ship before an oak plank, eating old ram with relish, and out of a laundry vessel at that, I would have believed him insane.
Later I was supplied from the same laundry utensil a liberal portion of what was intended for a meat stew, and a war allowance of bread.
But along in the early summer Maggie had quit the laundry without consultin' the old girl about it.
She'd chucked the laundry job for this, and she was lookin' like she was glad she'd made the shift.
The story opens in the city slums where Billy Roberts, teamster and ex-prize fighter, and Saxon Brown, laundry worker, meet and love and marry.
Since peace been declared I made my living doing laundry work and cooking.
Why should she allow them to make use of her kitchen and laundry to do their own personal washing, even providing them with soap and starch, irons and an ironing board, fuel and gas?
She must be washwoman and laundry woman, cleaning and scrub woman.
The huckleberry seems to me to voice a protest, and unless managed with the greatest neatness and circumspection it is bound to stimulate the laundry business.
I blew out my candle and stood with my back to the wall of the long corridor on which opened the various store-rooms, the heating plant, laundry and other accessories of the modern house.
Vanka, the little white-haired boy, told me all about it, when he ran out of his mother's laundry on purpose to throw mud after me when I happened to pass.
Already their laundry sustained itself by doing excellent work at moderate prices; why should they not, in still another way meet and play into the movement of the time for simplifying it, and making household routine more independent?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laundry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
