"Wench" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... large-handed wench, with a face like a comic mask. How should I forget her, by Pluto, whose handmaid she doubtless ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... "Cog's 'ounds, what am I about?" He instantly rang the bell, and a footman attended. "John, desire that wench Herbert ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... round of the premises, to think of Maggie and the effect his anger had produced on her. He meant to punish her, and that business having been performed, he occupied himself with other matters, like a practical person. But when he had been called in to tea, his father said, "Why, where's the little wench?" and Mrs. Tulliver, almost at the same moment, said, "Where's your little sister?"—both of them having supposed that Maggie and Tom had ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin
... I am rich, costs me one pound—perhaps five pounds; if I am poor, sends me to the treadmill. If I break the hearts of five hundred old fathers, by buying with gold or flattery the embraces of five hundred young daughters, that's vice,—your servant, Mr. World! If one termagant wench scratches my face, makes a noise, and goes brazen-faced to the Old Bailey to swear to her shame, why that's crime, and my friend, Mr. World, pulls a hemp-rope out of his pocket.' Now, do you understand? Yes, I repeat," he added, with a change ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 5 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... receipt?" he shrieked. "God and fury! things have come to a pretty pass that a slave wench should wait in my house for a receipt. ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various
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