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Updated: October 24, 2025
The little Dutchwoman eyed the frock, hating while she admired; then suddenly she pushed a fold of the silk into her mouth, and pulled with hands and tore with teeth until long streamers of silk flickered their reds and greens towards the fire.
It's mighty lonesome when I don't see you on my trips." "Oh, I guess you can stand it with Nina to talk to." "Aha! jealous, are you?" "Jealous of that Dutchwoman! I don't care who you talk to, and you needn't think it." Claude was learned in woman's ways, and this pleased him mightily. "Well, when shall I speak to your daddy?" "I don't know what you mean, and I don't care." "Oh, yes, you do.
She took the various brooms that were used for sweeping the carpets, the dining-room, the passages and stairs, together with the other utensils, with a care and particularity which no servant, not even a Dutchwoman, gives to her work. She hated reproof. After this she laid the table for breakfast and lit the stove in the dining-room.
Besides, in Holland, as in other countries, the proportion between the sexes is unequal, and so necessity will force open doors of usefulness hitherto closed to women. The Dutchwoman dresses expensively in all the towns, and generally well. The toilettes are mostly of a German model, which suits the build of the Dutchwoman better than the fashions of Paris.
At noon dined at home, and after dinner my wife and I to Sir W. Pen's, to see his Lady, the first time, who is a well-looked, fat, short, old Dutchwoman, but one that hath been heretofore pretty handsome, and is now very discreet, and, I believe, hath more wit than her husband. Here we staid talking a good while, and very well pleased I was with the old woman at first visit.
Believe me, Ware, that if there isn't some connection between those two, I am a Dutchwoman. However, Anne got into the carriage and it drove away." Giles caught up his hat. "To London," he cried jubilantly. "I know where Anne is to be found now." And to Mrs. Parry's dismay, he rushed out. But Giles was not destined to go to London as quickly as he thought. He rushed out of Mrs.
They call Mary invaluable and so very good, but she is like a homely little Dutchwoman, and nobody would think she was only twenty. Sophy, the next to her, calls herself pupil-teacher to Mrs.
She took the various brooms that were used for sweeping the carpets, the dining-room, the passages and stairs, together with the other utensils, with a care and particularity which no servant, not even a Dutchwoman, gives to her work. She hated reproof. After this she laid the table for breakfast and lit the stove in the dining-room.
She was a Dutchwoman, enormously fat when she walked she rolled like a small boat on the ocean, and the dishes in the cupboard jostled each other. She wore a filthy blue wrapper, and her teeth were black. "Vot is it?" she said, when she saw Jurgis. He had run like mad all the way and was so out of breath he could hardly speak.
We crossed the Coast Range of mountains, not so high and snow-capped as the Cascades, but beautiful to watch in their variations of light and shade, always the shadows of clouds travelling over them, and mists stealing up through the dark ravines. A Dutchwoman our fellow-passenger was in ecstasies, exclaiming continually: "How beautiful is the land here!
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