But instead of the big, motherly old figure, beaming at them from the toll-house door, a slatternly maid-servant said her mistress was out.
The women of other tribes are apt to adopt slatternlyskirts after their introduction to the frontier civilization.
A few dirty Indians and theirslatternly wives lounged about.
A handsome man or handsome woman is not improved by a shabby or slatternly attire; so the best abilities are shown to a disadvantage through a style marked by illiteracies.
Slatternly women gossip in groups about the doorways.
The general waited for the slatternly maid-servant to give them their breakfast and leave the room before he spoke.
The slatternly girl again appeared in the doorway much to the general's nervousness.
The landlord, followed by the slatternly maid-servant and the shifty-eyed stable-boy, trailed into the barn.
So might the Parkers' shifty-eyed stable-boy be wooing the slatternly maid-servant in some secluded place behind the barn.
Therefore he knocked, softly at first, but louder and louder until at length the door was plucked suddenly open and a woman appeared, a slatternly creature who bore a candle none too steadily.
Barnabas, and, nodding to the slatternly woman, he hurried along the passage and mounting the dark stair, paused before a dingy door.
A large slatternly woman stood in the back doorway, a woman who might possibly have been a pretty girl once but whose passing charms had long been utterly sponged out.
The chorus of approving murmurs showed that Nellie had spoken plainly enough on some subjects to displease some of these slatternly matrons.
All these slatternly practices, though they destroy a book as surely as the flames of Caesar's soldiers at Alexandria, seem fine manly acts to the grobians who use them.
Nothing is so slatternly as the aspect of a book merely stitched, in the French fashion, when the threads begin to stretch, and the paper covers to curl and be torn.
As a mere composition, dressed though it is like the poetic Muse described by Franklin in his letter to Polly "in a kind of slatternly Negligee," it is one of the masterpieces of literature.
Fat, slatternly Jeanne came upon her a few moments later moaning her heart out, and administered comfort.
He brought his luggage and took possession of the best spare room in the Villa, while Pauline and old, slatternly Jeanne, the bonne à tout faire, went about with agitated minds and busy hands attending to his comfort.
Then, fired by the independent theories and habits of a couple of fellow students, she left the home of dull respectability and joined them in the slatternly bohemia of a Chelsea slum.
The slatternly lady, shouldering her child, as a soldier does his firelock, thrust herself eagerly forward.
The slatternlywoman ran her guns out and returned the broadside with promptitude.
At which summons theslatternly woman immediately presented herself.
Half a dozen ragged children were disporting themselves on the doorstep, and as I approached the shop a slatternly woman came to the door and swooped them all into the house.
Mr. Gay was a fat, rubicund man with a somewhat faded and slatternly wife.
Nello went downstairs into the shabby sitting-room, where the slatternly maid had just shown in the popular physician.
He called to the slatternlywoman who was crouching over the fire.
Who in hell, he wondered, would be sending this sort of gift to his slatternly thick-bodied secretary.
Martin went into the kitchen with a sinking heart, the image of her red face and slatternly form eating its way like acid into his brain.
He started to leave the room, tripping over a loose seam in the slatternly carpet.
She was a large, stout woman, always dressedslatternly and always tired from the burdens of her flesh, her work, and her husband.
Slatternly women, peddling queer delectables of uncertain composition, waved their thin, bare arms and shrilly advertised their wares.
There were but few passengers, some half dozen men and twoslatternly attired women.
I was still thinking of her as I followed the sullen and slatternly servant up the dark stairs.
Equally unprepossessing was the corpulent and dead-eyed landlady in her faded blue house-wrapper; and equally depressing did I find the slatternly and bared-armed servant who was delegated to lead me up through the musty-smelling halls.
Elodie accompanied him in serene content, more flaccid and slatternly than ever in her hotel room, keenly efficient on the stage.
A slatternly woman was busy cooking breakfast in a little lean-to at the back of the larger room, a child was wailing in a crib, and before the fire two big, wolfish dogs were sleeping.
When he came fairly to his senses again he was lying in his little room and the slatternly chambermaid was looking in at him.
Nor is the feeling confined to the slatternly section, but often exhibited by very respectable cottagers indeed.
He abandoned the entire direction of his household to the slatternlyold woman who was his only servant, on the condition that she was never to venture near his books, with a duster in her hand, from one year's end to the other.
