waiting woman
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A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Billy’s ferry, though much larger, drooped like an old waiting woman.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
And yet, to the waiting woman, a hundred ominous sounds blended with the solemn ticking of the clock.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
Far down the tundra toward the cliffs stood the one lone tree of Kon Klayu facing the sea like a waiting woman with long, wind-blown hair.
From Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby
But she had schooled herself to serenity with an effort almost superhuman—and seizing a silver bell at her side, she rang for her waiting woman.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
