It was the spot where the washerwomen were allowed to wash all the dirty linen of Buenos Ayres in public.
The washerwomen kneeling by the brook bang the unfortunate clothes on the flat stones in rhythm with the tune, and beguile the time with the interminable song.
Before the building stood a woman in the neat and tasteful costume of the washerwomen from the village of Vannes, which then, as now, was the abode of the washerwomen of Paris.
One hundred and two British Washerwomen have been relieved when in the last state of decay.
Ninety-eight orphan children ofWasherwomen have been lodged within its walls.
The Cephissus even in a rainy season may be crossed dryshod by an active jumper; and the Ilissus, where it flows beneath the walls of the Olympieion, is now dedicated to washerwomeninstead of water-nymphs.
The fountain of Arethusa, recently rescued from the washerwomen of Syracuse, is shut off from the Great Harbour by a wall and planted with papyrus.
She did not even know where washerwomen were obtainable, and Frau Dellwig never seemed to be at home when she sent for her, or went to her seeking information.
Outside, as the washerwomen beat their linen clubs upon the flat rocks of the river, the hot, stale air was spanked with sharp reports.
The washerwomen are the undoubted masters of the situation, and carry all before them.
Piles of fair white linen are bundled up the gangway pell-mell, Malay washerwomen bundled out ditto, and for payment, the revolving screws settle that in a highly satisfactory manner.
Van Swieten maintained that washerwomen contract it, and that physicians and nurses might be affected.
Washerwomen appeared with steaming pails, porters pushing great brooms before them began gathering the refuse of the floor into heaps.
The washerwomen invaded the floor, spreading soapy and steaming water before them.
If we have today, as seems likely, over a billion dollars of accumulated goods, who shall say how much of it has been wrung from the hearts of servant girls and washerwomen and women toilers in the fields?
She went a little way, and found the king’s washerwomen at work.
Concerning a very popular Breton belief in phantomwasherwomen (les lavandieres de nuits; or in Breton, cannered noz), M.
It is sometimes believed that phantom washerwomen are undergoing penance for having wilfully brought on an abortion by their work, or else for having strangled their babe.
It is believed that these phantom washerwomen are women condemned to wash their mortuary sheets during whole centuries; but that when they find some mortal to wring in an opposite direction, they are delivered.
Unlike the lavandieres de nuits (phantom washerwomen of the night), they were heard only in summer, never in winter.
According to the old folk of the past generation, when the phantom washerwomen would ask a certain passer-by to help them to wring sheets, he could not refuse, under pain of being stopped and wrung like a sheet himself.
He heard behind, below, and on both sides of him, the washerwomen of the Gobelins beating their linen, and above him the birds twittering and singing in the elms.
Evidently he was insinuating that the washerwomen had stolen the linen themselves.
From his long speech the foreman of the jury could only have deduced "that it was housebreaking but not robbery, as the washerwomen had sold the linen for drink themselves; or, if there had been robbery, there had not been housebreaking.
But I'm told that in some parts of Europe the washerwomen themselves get into the tubs.
Over here, as I've heard, the clothes to be washed are put in tubs, and the washerwomen or washermen stand outside at work.
Then, warming to their work they struck at each other like washerwomenbeating clothes, roughly, and in time.
The muffled voices of the washerwomen and the rhythmic puffing of the steam engine seemed to deepen the almost religious silence.
Attend to your own business and I'll attend to mine, washerwomen don't work for dogs.
Half of thewasherwomen were perched on the edge of their tubs, eating sausages between slices of bread and drinking from open bottles of wine.
The washerwomen at the end of the street laughed to see him hold down his head when he passed them.
The washerwomen had eaten their bread and drunk their wine.
Protestant washerwomen were excluded from their washing-places on the river.
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