An army of fishwives, and other women of the lowest orders, had marched to Versailles, and threatened the King and Marie Antoinette, if food was not given them.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
Black as the face was, it brought to my mind, strange to say, those weather-tanned fishwives of the Normandy coast-those sturdy, patient, earnest women, accustomed to toil and exposure and to the buffetings of wind and tempest.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
This party in turn yields place to a band of pipers and drummers, accompanying men who whirl torches round their head so skilfully that the eye sees nought but a moving circle of flame; and they are succeeded by Musulman men and boys, disguised as Konkani fishermen and fishwives, who chant elegies to Husein and keep the rhythm by clapping their hands or by swinging to and fro small earthen pots pierced to serve as a lamp.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.