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 Charles Caldwell Dobie
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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 Eugène Brieux
The woman of the streets and the man of the gutter drew very close to me.
From War of the Classes by Jack London
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 Justin McCarthy
