workgirl

Example Sentences

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She astonished the architect with her ideas, for, as became a Parisian workgirl who understands the elegancies of life by instinct, she had suddenly developed a very pretty taste for every species of luxurious refinement.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

To avoid standing idle, Laptev took some trimmings from a workgirl and let her go; then listened to a customer, a merchant from Vologda, and told a clerk to attend to him.

From The Darling and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

The girl was dressed like a young lady, not like a workgirl.

From Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

Dear Mr. Rushleigh," said she, with all her gratitude for his just spoken kindness to herself and her appreciation of his ready sympathy for the poor workgirl, in her voice—"don't think of me!

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

She was of the usual type seen in the streets of Islington, poorly dressed with some attempt at faded finery—probably a workgirl in some city factory.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William