market-woman

That she had been bewildered when questioned by the market-woman, was not surprising, since she had passed a sleepless night, and the fate of poor William was yet uncertain.

Chapter 7 2010

That she had been bewildered when questioned by the market-woman was not surprising, since she had passed

Chapter 8 2010

But suppose the market-woman should hide her fat goose when Sir

The Virginians 2006

Readers cannot fail to have remarked that what an author tells us of the beauty or the charm of his creatures goes for nought; that we know instantly better; that the heroine cannot open her mouth but what, all in a moment, the fine phrases of preparation fall from round her like the robes from Cinderella, and she stands before us, self-betrayed, as a poor, ugly, sickly wench, or perhaps a strapping market-woman.

Memories and Portraits 2005

She had been out the whole of the night on which the murder had been committed, and towards morning had been perceived by a market-woman not far from the spot where the body of the murdered child had been afterwards found.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

That she had been bewildered when questioned by the market-woman, was not surprising since she had passed a sleepless night, and the fate of poor William was yet uncertain.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

That would not be fair-play: every woman was young in her turn, and had her chances of matrimony, which it was a point of honour for other women not to spoil — just as one market-woman who has sold her own eggs must not try to balk another of a customer.

Adam Bede 2004

She had been out the whole of the night on which the murder had been committed, and towards morning had been perceived by a market-woman not far from the spot where the body of the murdered child had been afterwards found.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

She had been out the whole of the night on which the murder had been committed, and towards morning had been perceived by a market-woman not far from the spot where the body of the murdered child had been afterwards found.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

That she had been bewildered when questioned by the market-woman, was not surprising since she had passed a sleepless night, and the fate of poor William was yet uncertain.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004