woman of the streets

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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

The woman of the streets and the man of the gutter drew very close to me. 

From War of the Classes by London, Jack

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