charwomen

Our family affairs are rather deranged at present, for Nanny has kept her bed these three or four days, with a pain in her side and fever, and we are forced to have two charwomen, which is not very comfortable. she is considerably better now, but it must still be some time, I suppose, before she is able to do anything.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

Even people who run libraries and museums undermine Palladian grandeur by doing everything they can to ensure that we enter the premises like charwomen and delivery boys, unencumbered by any ideas about the heroic dignity of knowledge or learning.

Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum Philip Kennicott 2010

Meanwhile how about those deadly broom and mop handles, those pernicious charwomen should be on their KNEES!

Klingon Control 2009

Meanwhile how about those deadly broom and mop handles, those pernicious charwomen should be on their KNEES!

Klingon Control 2009

The majority of the repeat offenders who end up in the monkey house are Charwoman Charlenes, the daughters of charwomen who see no escape from the family business.

This Week's Pattern Story - A Dress A Day 2009

That day he stood near his desk, hands on his hips, monitoring the kitchen and calling greetings to the maids and charwomen coming and going through a swinging service door.

The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

That day he stood near his desk, hands on his hips, monitoring the kitchen and calling greetings to the maids and charwomen coming and going through a swinging service door.

The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

The charwoman who silently screws up her face in annoyance at Corey, who keeps her from doing her work, is Mary Gordon, a character actor in close to 300 films, many of them charwomen and landladies.

The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

That day he stood near his desk, hands on his hips, monitoring the kitchen and calling greetings to the maids and charwomen coming and going through a swinging service door.

The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

That day he stood near his desk, hands on his hips, monitoring the kitchen and calling greetings to the maids and charwomen coming and going through a swinging service door.

The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008