1 The dancing pavilion was put up near the Danish laundry, on a vacant lot surrounded by tall, arched cottonwood trees.
2 If he went into the laundry to get his collars, there were the four Danish girls, smiling up from their ironing-boards, with their white throats and their pink cheeks.
3 Tony and Lena and Tiny were always there, and the three Bohemian Marys, and the Danish laundry girls.
4 The four Danish girls lived with the laundryman and his wife in their house behind the laundry, with a big garden where the clothes were hung out to dry.
5 Edna found her friend engaged in assorting the clothes which had returned that morning from the laundry.
6 But it was a young black girl, who came in, bringing a small bundle of laundry, which she deposited in the adjoining room, and went away.
7 It seems that Tina is the child of the Frenchwoman who does the fine ironing in the laundry here.
8 So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
9 On being shown her chamber, she was so dreadfully sensible of its comforts as to suggest the inference that she would have preferred to pass the night on the mangle in the laundry.
10 After the break-up at home the boys had got her that position in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, and she liked it.
11 She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, where the water comes through faucets.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 12 During the day the greater part of the young men worked in the school's sawmill, and the young women worked in the laundry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 13 In Washington I saw girls whose mothers were earning their living by laundrying.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter V. 14 These girls were taught by their mothers, in rather a crude way it is true, the industry of laundrying.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter V.