"Huswife" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Go your way for a prating Huswife, go, and call your Sister hither. [Exit Fanny.] —Well, I'm resolv'd to leave this Town, nay, and the World too, rather than ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need of vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn? There was another meaning in these gifts; Think what, and be advised; you are but ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton |
