slattern

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In this respect she had always been in strong contrast to her cousins, who, in spite of their taste for pronounced colours, were utter slatterns.

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The men of the house had been rough and unmannerly and the ugly, sallow women had dipped snuff and looked like slatterns.

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It is the unknown makes strange associates, attracts men to ugly women, slatterns to dandies.

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She could conceive of no more inspiring spot for a poet, but she sighed again as she thought of the slatterns that miscared for him.

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These were slatterns, not wholly lacking in a certain comeliness, and eyed the visitors with shy curiosity.

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