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"Is it likely," Dr. Sandford said slowly, "that the daughter of a marketwoman should be a good friend in every respect for the daughter of Mrs. Randolph?"
Daisy Susan Warner 1852
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Sholem Aleichem proved best at creating characters who spoke in their own voices -- an anxious mother, a harried marketwoman, grown-ups revisiting their childhood, a bereaved parent, a pimp returning from Buenos Aires to find himself a home-town wife.
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At her house she found in the waiting-room the marketwoman, who had come to present a bouquet to her.
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It was after eleven; the marketwoman, as usual, had departed at dawn for her stall, leaving the boy alone.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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"I do not see what pleasure my company can give you, Monsieur," she said curtly, "I am only a poor marketwoman!"
The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889
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At her house she found in the waiting-room the marketwoman, who had come to present a bouquet to her.
The Red Lily — Complete Anatole France 1884
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"I have heard that her mother was a marketwoman," I said very unwillingly; for I knew the conclusions that would be drawn.
Daisy Susan Warner 1852
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My name is Marya,” the middle-aged marketwoman shouted at him.
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