"Were it Betty's father come back to me, instead of a stranger of whom I know nothing," the good woman would say aloud, as she swept, or Dusted, or scoured in her little house, "I could not find less fault with him than I do, or be more fond of him.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Although since the new order of things at Ayrmuir, Mrs. Cameron had Jenny, a big, raw-boned, brown-eyed girl from the Wirree, to help her, and the family had meals in the parlour, and sat on the best shiny, black horse-hair furniture every day, Deirdre made beds, Dusted and swept with Mrs. Cameron.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
She swept and Dusted, cooked their food, washed the dishes and sewed, with latterly only anxious thoughts to occupy her mind.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard