land-woman

Updated: May 13, 2025

All the other rows were occupied by fairy women with their skirts tucked up for only your amateur land-woman wears breeches. They all had hoes, but were not using them much. They were singing curious old round songs like summer dreams; you could hear strange fragments of phrases passing from voice to voice. They took no notice of Sarah Brown, and she began to work.

Stella Benson - Living Alone

Dennitson, a quiet young Englishman, never exceeded her in this, though he made it a point always to tie her score. "She was a sea-woman, true. But she was a land-woman, a horsewoman a she was the universal woman.

Jack London - The Night-Born