I certainly do not resemble a fishwife, she said, nor have I any intention of acting as one. |
This choice remark was accompanied by the grin of a fishwife and the stare of a drab. |
A longshoreman wouldn't have called a fishwife what I called you, you blessed child. |
She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty. |
In another Moment, except Help come, the fishwife will be no more. |
As a young local reporter in Hull in 1980, I saw Lillian fleetingly in a pub following an interview with a bereaved fishwife. |