Cinder Wench

Villot, a lily in his hand, which he regarded ever sentimentally, caroled the boisterous espousals of a yokel and a cinder-wench, while Marot and a bishop contended in a heated argument regarding the translation of a certain passage of ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)

The "bad" bonnet must sink the large souled Grecian to a cinder-wench, make the Frenchwoman a trapes from the Palais Royal, our fair astronomer a gipsy of Greenwich Park, and the fate-foretelling sybil ❋ Various (N/A)

"Thou art in the right of it," replied they; "it would make the people laugh to see a cinder-wench at a ball." ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)

Were I to take a cinder-wench out of the Rue Poissonniere, I could at my will raise her up until the highest in France would be proud to bow down before her. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

"Now Cinderella, depart; but remember, if you stay one instant after midnight, your carriage will become a pumpkin, your coachman a rat, your horses mice, and your footmen lizards; while you yourself will be the little cinder-wench you were an hour ago." ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

"You are right; people would only laugh to see a little cinder-wench at a ball." ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

So the herald bade Cinderella sit down on a three-legged stool in the kitchen, and himself put the slipper on her pretty little foot, which it fitted exactly; she then drew from her pocket the fellow slipper, which she also put on, and stood up -- for with the touch of the magic shoes all her dress was changed likewise -- no longer the poor despised cinder-wench, but the beautiful lady whom the king's son loved. ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

"Ay, to be sure," cried Miss Charlotte, "lend my clothes to such a dirty cinder-wench as thou art! ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)