In some the colours of the markings are clear and bright, in others they are as faint and feeble as one of our modern Manchester warranted-fast-coloured muslins, after its third visit to a native washerman.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
This soon became so boresome that I deported him to Hesketh's boat, where he underwent another defeat at the hands of that irate Lancer, whose shirts and temper had suffered together; finally the woeful washerman, still howling lugubriously, was landed on the river bank, and we saw and heard him no more!
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
The ordinary village menials, as the barber and washerman, will not work for them, and services of this nature are performed by men of their own community.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell