Someone who sells fish

Usage examples of fishwife.

Betty had drawn back, and now, as the fishwife spoke, in a voice which she tried to render melodious, though it ended only in a croak, the Little Captain seemed to urge her chums away.

She looked back toward the sand dunes, possibly for a sight of the old fishwife, but no one was in view.

It was bad enough to have him touch Amy, and bad enough for the old fishwife to clasp Betty in her horrid arms, but Betty thought she surely would die if that man approached her.

A split moment of delay bared him to a downward slice that opened his gambeson like a fishwife gutting a herring and streaked a stinging cut along the line of his ribs.

Suddenly she was thrusting past the guards, shouldering and pushing her way through the crowd, using her elbows like a fishwife, her only thought to reach him.

The fact was that though there were about two hundred bullheads in the tank, Grandpa was heavily in debt to the fishwife with whom they dealt.

If the fishwife agreed not to hold back all the money everything would be fine.

Looking for his fishwife, the boy walked past baskets swarming with light-green lobsters.

Ten times the fishwife picked up the brass pans of her balance all covered with fish scales, and ten times she threw them back into the basket of flat-fish.

The fishwife gesticulated rapidly with her fleshy hands in their black knitted mitts, not forgetting to hold her little finger out at an elegant angle.

The fishwife gave the customer the bullheads and threw the coins into her moneybag.

When the fishwife finished shouting she coolly transferred the bullheads from the tank to her basket, deftly counting them off by tens.

I put my hands on my hips like any common fishwife ready to deliver a round scolding.

Mayhap he thought I had been nigh on to throwing a fit, like some fishwife in Dover, and was gratified at my restraint.

You were shouting at her like a fishwife about her coat and your mother and assorted other topics.