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Examples
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For shame, oh, for shame! you slanderin backbitin dairy-woman you!
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And now Dash and May follow us every where, and are going with us now to the Shaw, or rather to the cottage by the Shaw, to bespeak milk and butter of our little dairy-woman, Hannah Bint -- a housewifely occupation, to which we owe some of our pleasantest rambles -- _Miss
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 Various
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She was maid of all-work, a chamber-maid, cook, dairy-woman, laundress, and children's nurse; and yet she found time to make us a cordial welcome.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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It is to be understood that when the verses were composed, she was in charge of her father's extensive pastoral _manége_, and not a mere milk-maid or dairy-woman.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Now Hannah showed great judgment in setting up as a dairy-woman.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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It was not a common dairy, and Dame Clementina was not a common dairy-woman.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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It was not a common dairy, and Dame Clementina was not a common dairy-woman.
The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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It may seem somewhat excessive to use the word chivalry in connection with Mrs. Twomey, the Coppinger's Court dairy-woman.
Mount Music Martin Ross 1888
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In order to humiliate them, "to take them down a peg," this man who, in the whole course of his life, had never forgotten the name of a dairy-woman or a hall-porter, disdained to remember the names of the most illustrious actors.
A Mummer's Tale Anatole France 1884
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Nothing can be more perfect than the manner in which he blends the dairy-woman and woman of business in Jeanie Deans, with the lover and the sister.
Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878
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