Milkwomen

The plow-boys whistled as they led out their mules; men and short-skirted, heavily shod women went trooping to the cotton fields; the milkwomen stepped briskly by, with the foaming pails balanced upon their well-poised heads. ❋ Margaret Devereux (N/A)

In the original form the picture of low life at dawn on Montmartre, in which charwomen, scavengers, ragpickers, street sweepers, milkwomen, policemen, and others figure, was enlivened by a mysterious personage called Le Noctambule, who proclaimed himself to be the soul of the city -- the Pleasure of Paris. ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)

In some parts of town milkwomen distribute their wares without howling. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

And even if we could secure the services of milkwomen of the silent species that ring the bell, could we hope to have female chimney-sweeps as well behaved? ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

On the other hand, milkwomen exist who howl as loudly as milkmen. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Waggons coming in from the country, milkwomen setting forth on their daily rounds, clamorous young rooks cawing among the topmost branches of the elms, song-birds chirruping and gurgling their glad morning hymn; and over all things the glory and the freshness of the summer sunshine. ❋ Unknown (1875)

He lived by begging, always from milkwomen, and always scones and milk, and was not once refused. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

It is pastoral to feel the freshness of the air in the uninhabited town, and to appreciate the shepherdess character of the few milkwomen who purvey so little milk that it would be worth nobody's while to adulterate it, if anybody were left to undertake the task. ❋ Unknown (1861)

I thought the Frankfort milkwomen with their donkeys and hearse-like carts, were comical objects enough, but they bear no comparison with these Bohemian turn-outs. ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)

With all these, there appears no more serious difficulty to encounter than that involved in altered editions of their usual dispensatories, or books of reference '-- an amount of trouble and expense, we should say, not greater, certainly, in proportion to the position of the parties concerned, than that which was forced on the poor chandlers and milkwomen by the act of ❋ Various (1836)