fishwife

Example Sentences

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She was growing old ungracefully, and she cried or made scenes like a fishwife.

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Stannis rubbed the back of his neck, “You haggle like a crone with a codfish, Lord Snow. Did Ned Stark father you on some fishwife? How many men?”

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Once safely on the north bank, I asked a cheerful fishwife the way to The George, where I found Falconer eating his supper—fish, again.

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Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress.

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Do they not hear me hollering over the fence at my sons every day in the habitual, maternal accents of a native-born fishwife?

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