We engage, on her recommendation, a housemaid, and a charwoman of irreproachable antecedents.
Charwoman and housemaid hearing that I am going away with Medford, say they can't live alone in this big place.
Without labour-saving arrangements, four servants, or three with a charwoman twice a week, would have been needed to do the work really well in the larger house, while three would have been required in the smaller house.
My maid has her family near, so she goes out two evenings a week from half-past five to a quarter to ten, and thecharwoman stays here till 8.
I then dismissed my cook and 'tweeny,' as I did not like them very much, and asked the house-parlourmaid if she would like to stay at an increased wage if I undertook the greater part of the cooking and had a charwoman two days a week.
If advisable, a charwoman one day a week could turn out the nurseries, tidy the front area and backyard, clean the stairs and bathrooms.
Mrs. Maldon employed an old and valued charwoman in the mornings.
The charwoman had been washing up cutlery since before Rachel was born.
I must have some one all the time, and I couldn't do with a charwoman as well.
I leave all the other washing-up for the charwoman in the morning, but I wouldn't trust these to her.
You'll see it at its worst, for Bryce decamped abroad last Monday without even arranging for a charwoman to clear up after him.
Paradoxical as it may sound, he had something of the artist about him; he would pass over an insult to his daughter sooner than lose a good charwoman for his wife.
On the other hand, listen to the tragical, horrific history of one afternoon--it was a washing day; the charwoman had forgotten to close the gate.
Yes, the old charwoman said, the Major had got home the previous day, but he had just gone out.
Then the charwoman worked herself up into a frenzy of rage, to dare to attack Brangwen, and one day descended on him like a harpy.
One other passenger mounted--a sort of charwoman with a drab, wet coat.
It is no more likely he would tell a charwoman his destination than his real name and business.
There was an air of self-assurance about him that would have deceived a Russian diplomat, to say nothing of a London charwoman of about seventy years of age.
It is recorded of the same estimable charpson--if a parson who also discharges the duties of a squire has been called a squarson, may not one who goes out like a charwoman by the day be called a charpson?
What they wanted was a charwoman with a husband, not a librarian with a wife; but with traditional pomposity they must needs advertise for a "librarian" with a "salary.
So they had to keep a charwoman in almost constant employ.
The servant next door went for him, for the charwoman is gone home.
The only person inside the gloomy building was a charwoman cleaning.
The occasion was an unworthy one, for the object of his wrath was none other than the aged charwoman whom I have already mentioned as being the one person who was allowed within his mysterious chamber.
He sprang across the room, switched on the electric light, and in its white glare I saw him, his eyes gleaming with anger, his face twisted with passion, as the hapless charwoman may have seen him weeks before.
An instant later the charwoman passed me, flying down the passage, white faced and tremulous, while the terrible voice thundered behind her.
A charwoman came once a day to arrange his chamber, and perform other household work, and he usually dined, very simply, at a coffee-house or tavern.
It may appear presumptuous in a foreigner to give an opinion against such high authority; but, "what can we reason but from what we know?
She liked "a civil tradesman" immensely; she liked a civil charwoman immensely; and she liked a civil workman immensely.
They remained there unopened till the charwoman removed them in the evening.
As it was, a charwoman every week was more than he could manage, and she knew it.
All through the winter the charwoman came every day.
If he couldn't keep a servant, he could, and did, engage a charwoman for all the heavy work.
The charwoman worked heavily against odds, doing all she knew.
Ring angrily, when a charwoman in a bonnet appears, and explains that the servants, not expecting me home so early, have gone to the play, having locked up the larder.
Charwoman agrees with me that it is disgraceful--especially the locking up of the larder.
The charwoman had begun her demonstration by slowly drawing her finger across her throat from one ear to the other, and Annalise repeated the action for Priscilla's clearer comprehension.
Hearing which statement, an impressionable charwoman went into hysterics, and had to be recalled to her senses by a dose of gin, suggested and taken strictly as a medicine.
And she did her work very well, with a thoroughness the English charwoman would have despised, never minding what that work was, so long as she had plenty to eat and could prepare by an elaborate toilet for every errand she ran.
His visit was late, the charwoman had gone for the night, and I was left to do all 'Enrietter's work myself.
Her objection to going into service except as a charwoman was that she would have to stay the night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charwoman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: char; cleaner; custodian; janitor; servant
