She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty. |
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It's a wild, 85-centimetre fishwife, whose little female brain I have difficulty in finding. |
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When his mood darkens like thunder over his grace-and-favour manor in the Chilterns, he will curse like a fishwife and strike like an adder. |
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Heeling hard, my jib flaps like a fishwife hanging the laundry and I feel desperate not to let Venus down. |
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Returning to his house in the New Town one day in 1769, Hume, monstrously fat by then, fell into a bog and despaired of extrication until an old fishwife happened by. |
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In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde — who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason. |
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My fishwife impression makes Aphrodite laugh. |
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