washing-day

It bore through the harvest country a smell like a large washing-day, and a sharp issue of steam as from a huge brazen tea-urn.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

After the desperate charge of young Doones had been met by us, and broken, and just as Poor Kit Badcock died in the arms of the dead Charley, I happened to descry a patch of white on the grass of the meadow, like the head of a sheep after washing-day.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day tomorrow, and they want the coppers filled.'

The internal economy of Dotheboys Hall 2004

The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day tomorrow, and they want the coppers filled.'

Lance Mannion: 2004

You see it was washing-day -- and my wife wanted me to go out and bring in a little stove-wood -- you know we lost our help lately, and my wife has to wash and tend to everything about the house herself.

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

A plain dinner for washing-day -- a beefsteak and some boiled potatoes, a salad, and a pie or pudding made on the preceding Saturday -- is all that should be required of a maid-of-all-work on Monday.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Two days later was washing-day, and the cook, Aunt Winnie, told her mistress she was too sick to do the very large washing for three boarders besides the family.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

She knew which would be absent from drill because it was washing-day, and which was weak for want of food; and she resumed her poaching habits -- only on Uncle James Patten's estate, of course -- and, having beguiled a gunsmith into letting her have an air-gun on credit, she managed to snare and shoot birds enough to relieve their necessities to an appreciable extent.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

At any hour of day or night in the most distant part of your house, you have but to turn a stop-cock and your red dragon sends you hot water for your needs; your washing-day becomes a mere play-day; your pantry has its ever-ready supply; and then, by a little judicious care in arranging apartments and economizing heat, a range may make two or three chambers comfortable in winter weather.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

It happened to be _washing-day_: the washerwoman gave him a pailful of scalding soapsuds to throw on it; but whether he was most afraid of me or of the snake is still a question: however, the washerwoman brought it home with the tongs, and dropped it into the dolly-tub.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various