woman of the streets

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Long years later, another man of letters, hungry, homeless, and friendless, sick almost unto death, found a kind friend and gentle nurse in a woman of the streets.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin

I myself saw a common woman of the streets stand before this picture with tears running down her cheeks.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

I am not a woman of the streets, and to stand around like that, with everybody else, to be obliged to tell all one's miseries out loud before the world!

From Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Brieux, Eugène

To what black purpose had belated love sprung up in his heart for this woman of the streets?

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Is it fair to me, to your family, to your dead mother to take a woman of the streets and live with her?

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore