... need something to occupy my mind.” Her lover’s laughter echoed in the cave and Kitai smiled to herself. “It is really your mind you wish occupied, Kitai? If so, perhaps you should go gossip with the washerwomen down at the camp. They can spin many a fine tale in the hot afternoon sun.” Kitai felt a breeze stir her hair and daringly undid her clothes. “If you don’t come here now, Chala, I may ...
... pace. He rode north out of town, past the road where the prostitutes' cribs were. The road to Fort Richardson cut through a shallow part of the Clear Fork, where he crossed amid Fort Griffin's washerwomen gathering water for the day's labor. The hills and trees were green with late summer abundance. The early morning air was cool, and he was glad to get away from the dusty, crowded shacks of ...
... scene engraved on it, and pronounced it a fine specimen. Dean only shook his head when the man offered to buy it. Finally he stopped at Conrad & Rath to purchase lye soap (made by the washerwomen at the fort), a razor and strop, tobacco, rolling papers, salt, turpentine, and baking soda in preparation for latesummer Ranger life out on the plains. He also budgeted for a new pair of underwear and...
...the porridge was coming to the slow cook. He wandered into the cleaning house seeing some of the washerwomen getting the large tubs of water ready to begin the day’s laundry. The steam was rising steadily as they boiled more hot water for each basin. Leaving the clothes with one of the many washerwomen to clean, Merlin stayed for a while having a small chat with elder women he had come to ...
... we drop the 'just friends' act, because it's obvious that we're really just trying to hide our secret love affair! Which is apparently not secret at all, because half this city full of gossiping washerwomen knows about it! " "Colonel Carter?" John sounded more surprised than anything else. "You're kidding me." "I'm not! That's the point!" "Okay. Just--" John rubbed his neck, frowning down at ...
...him and that he will save him, and he holds Dean like this for as long as he can. He rubs soothing patterns into Dean’s back with his knuckles, and rocks them both, and hums the old songs of washerwomen of Jerusalem that sound like love and home and here in my arms . Even after Dean quiets and stills, he continues to sooth him and to rock him and to hum to him, because this is all he can give...
Sigh a sound that might have come from the lips of a disappointed lover. The second most obvious characteristic of the object they had just caught up with was the remarkable amount of fresh damage that it had sustained. The ruin looked too genuine and extensive to be any kind of trick. As they approached the wreck ever more closely there was hard radiation too wild and irregular in both intensity...
... carols in August and didn't think there was anything weird about that. The kind of guy who could push you into a closet one minute and be entirelyprofessional the next. All The Best Washerwomen Drink Mountain Dew by Randomling Written for: 2008 MTYG 13) Then something touched Chris's cheek, and he almost jerked his head away before he realised it was only JC's fingertips, slipping ...
... fighting off competition in the ungainly shape of De Fourtnoy, he had had to muster up every ounce of thespian talent in him to preach comforting speeches about all the dead serving boys, stable hands and washerwomen to upset villagers. As if that hadn’t been enough to grind him down to dust, some cheap assassin had made several miserable attempts to kill the Sheriff and it had fallen on Guy to ...
... all examinationsare bad.
..."A momentary vision danced before Mr. Britling's eyes of red flannelpetticoats being torn up in a rapid improvisation of soldiers to resista sudden invasion. Passing washerwomen suddenly requisitioned. But onemust not let oneself be laughed out of good intentions because ofridiculous accessories. The idea at any rate was the sound one.
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