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charwoman
1. I now have a job as a charwoman and have
2. Now this help, or char-girl--you could not call her a charwoman she was manifestly still so very young--was that Emma who had been obliged to tell the vicar's wife about Priscilla's children's treat and who did not punctually return books
3. Annalise had had it told her from beginning to end, with the help of signs, by the charwoman
4. The charwoman had begun her demonstration by slowly drawing her finger across her throat from one ear to the other, and Annalise repeated the action for Priscilla's clearer comprehension
5. She worked day and night for her sister, and besides doing the cooking and the washing, she did sewing and worked as a charwoman and gave her sister all she earned
6. He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her
7. At six o'clock, with the aid of the charwoman, she laid him out; then she went round the dreary London village to the registrar and the doctor
8. During most of that time he and his family had been existing in a condition of semi-starvation on the earnings of his wife as a charwoman and on the scraps of food she brought home from the houses where she worked
9. There were several advantages attached to the position: the caretaker became acquainted with the leading members and their wives, some of who, out of charity, occasionally gave her a day's work as charwoman, the wages being on about the same generous scale as those she earned at the Chapel, sometimes supplemented by a parcel of broken victuals or some castoff clothing
10. book-keeper - after referring to former entries to make quite certain of the amount, paid her the sum that Hunter had represented as her wages, the same amount that Miss Wade had on the previous occasions given him to pay the charwoman
11. The occasion was an unworthy one, for the object of his wrath was none other than the aged charwoman whom I have already mentioned as being the one person who was allowed within his mysterious chamber
12. "You would dare to disobey my directions!" An instant later the charwoman passed me, flying down the passage, white-faced and tremulous, while the terrible voice thundered behind her
13. He sprang across the room, switched on the electric light, and in its white glare I saw him, his eyes gleaming with anger, his face twisted with passion, as the hapless charwoman may have seen him weeks before
14. When the carriage was gone they ascended the stairs to wash their hands, the charwoman showing the way
15. "Whose portraits are those?" asked Clare of the charwoman
16. The charwoman soon came
17. Larcher having just become charitably concerned about alarming symptoms in her charwoman, when Dr
18. I got back to my flat in time to catch my charwoman at work and tell her to make up the spare room bed
19. ‘What shall we do with these?’ asked the charwoman
20. “What shall we do with these?” asked the charwoman
21. This was when I chanced to see the third-storey staircase door (which of late had always been kept locked) open slowly, and give passage to the form of Grace Poole, in prim cap, white apron, and handkerchief; when I watched her glide along the gallery, her quiet tread muffled in a list slipper; when I saw her look into the bustling, topsy-turvy bedrooms,—just say a word, perhaps, to the charwoman about the proper way to polish a grate, or clean a marble mantelpiece, or take stains from papered walls, and then
22. “She is a good hand, I daresay,” said the charwoman
23. The charwoman was going on; but here Leah turned and perceived me, and she instantly gave her companion a nudge
24. One of them was already a widow and lived in the inn with her two children, his grandchildren, and worked for him like a charwoman
25. Take for instance to-day! I spent this morning at Rzhánov's lodging-house, among the outcasts there; and I saw an infant literally die of hunger; a boy suffering from alcoholism; and a consumptive charwoman rinsing clothes outside in the cold
