What is "farmwife"

Usage examples of "farmwife".

He showed the same lesson to an orchardman from Goson, whose name was Korin, to the potter, Kosul, from his own group, and to a woman from the west, Maol, a farmwife who blushed redder than sunburn, but who understood what he wished to say.

The farmwife had felt its spine then sentenced it to be put out of its misery.

He stood for a moment considering her and wishing she looked less like a farmwife, lying in the haystack after a hard day tending pigs.

One, the farmwife, Maol, had learned to draw strange symbols, the same that he saw behind his eyelids.

Hati had been talking to them, and one of them, Maol the farmwife, glowered and fingered something beneath her belt when she looked at those men.

Oddling woman pulled Anigel off down the narrow dusty passage, and the huntsman followed after, shooing Kadiya ahead of him as a farmwife herds her togars.

Gwalchmai had learned early that the elderly farmwife had a soft, warm heart, although she treated everyone indiscriminately to the rough side of her tongue.

She was a farmwife with a cleaver hidden behind her back and a mind to use it, now.

They have been known to bypass the great and mighty to slay a farmwife or a craftsman, or to enter a town or village and leave without killing, though clearly they came for some reason.

Her plain face belonged on a farmwife rather than a Blue sister, and she dressed very simply, publicly at least, in good wool, but she handled her bay gelding as easily as Delana did her mare.

Bera like a proud farmwife and Alanna like some darkly beautiful queen, in their green-fringed shawls, and plump Rafela, even darker wrapped in her blue, watching him anxiously, and cool-eyed Faeldrin, yet another Green, her thin braids worked with colored beads, and slim Merana in her gray, whose frown made Rafela seem a picture of Aes Sedai serenity.

This farmwife would tell a king to scrape his boots before coming into her house, and be sharp about it.

Bera would have looked like a farmwife with her brown hair cut close around a square face, but at the moment that face was set in grim determination.

She was a stocky woman, with brown hair cut close around a square face, and despite her green silks, lacking Aes Sedai agelessness she would have looked a farmwife.

Tilgar, farmwives used to cooking for large groups at harvest time, were helping prepare meals for the soldiers.