His brothers had not replied at all, seeming to be indignant with him; while his father and mother had written a rather sad letter, deploring his precipitancy in rushing into marriage, but making the best of the matter by saying that, though a dairywoman was the last daughter-in-law they could have expected, their son had arrived at an age at which he might be supposed to be the best judge. ❋ Unknown (1891)
a dairywoman was the last daughter-in-law they could have expected, their son had arrived at an age which he might be supposed to be the best judge. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
She had gone in; but she would soon reappear, for it could be seen that she was carrying little new cheeses one by one to a spring-cart and horse tethered outside the gate — her grandmother, though not a regular dairywoman, still managing a few cows by means of a man and maid. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They went to the baker and the vintner, and then they got a wedge of cheese from a dairywoman in the marketplace. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)
She was a model housekeeper and dairywoman in the days when they worked the farm, and is now an oracle on many questions. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Thus, for instance, a dairywoman will fill the shelves of her compartment with pans of milk: her next neighbor is perhaps a small dealer in wood, coal and turf, and raises a dust accordingly; the greengrocer opposite makes the air damp and bitter with his heaps of neglected vegetables; while the butcher not only has ❋ Various (N/A)
I mention this to show the amateur dairywoman how very essential is cleanliness in every article she uses. ❋ Miss Coulton (N/A)
There was Uncle Nathan, the butler, whose wife was Aunt Susan, the dairywoman; Uncle Davy, the shoemaker; Saul, the blacksmith; Mingo, the old body servant of Colonel Carroll; Fortune, the coachman, etc., etc. -- all very powerful men. ❋ Sarah Ellen Blackwell (N/A)
Nothing can be more perfect than the manner in which he blends the dairywoman and woman of business in Jeanie Deans with the lover and the sister. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Self-sacrificing as her mood might be Tess could not well go further and cry, 'Marry one of them, if you really do want a dairywoman and not a lady; and don't think of marrying me!' ❋ Unknown (1891)
Self-sacrificing as her mood might be, Tess could not well go further and cry, "Marry one of them, if you really do want a dairywoman and not a lady; and don't think of marrying me!" ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
English visitor to a merry but strictly decorous party having a special bit of sward to themselves, bailiff, vintagers, stockmen, dairywoman, washerwoman and odd hands making up a round dozen of men, women and boys. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
Bourhope shouted with laughter when the incorrigible Sir Percy, in the disguise of the dairywoman, described his routing charge as "the milky mothers of the herd." ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)
Poor Dame Kenton, as was took last spring, was the best dairywoman in the parish, and this little maid takes after her. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
CHAPTER I. _How the sub-prioress, Dorothea Stettin, visits Sidonia and extols her virtue -- Item, of Sidonia's quarrel with the dairywoman, and how she beats the sheriff himself, Eggert Sparling, with a broom-stick. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)
I will be as good a housewife and dairywoman, stir about as briskly, and sing as merrily, as Peggy Curling. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)
In addition, the Beef Board unanimously elected Massachusetts dairywoman Lucinda Williams to serve as 2009 chairman of the Board, with outgoing chairman Dave Bateman of Illinois handing over the gavel as he ended his chairmanship. ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
The only money which Dare received to carry on with, on his accession to the great honor and dignity of proprietor of Vandon, was brought to him by the old dairywoman of the house, a faithful creature, who produced out of an old stocking the actual coins which she had received for the butter and cheese she had sold, of which she showed Dare an account, chalked up in some dead language on the dairy door. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)
