Crossword-Solution: FISHWIFE 8 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Our Italian corporal, who had got a dozen of oysters from a fishwife, laid them at my feet, as though I were a Pagan idol; and I have never since been wholly at my ease in the society of shellfish.

When he realized this he lost all his self-possession, and, as the Buffalo Courier put it the next day, "went up and down the platform raving like a Billingsgate fishwife." He lost the debate, and the supply of yellow ribbon left in the surrounding counties was purchased that night to be used in the suffrage celebration that followed.

There was no appeal too base for him, and none too august: by some subtle alchemy he blended the arts of the prophet and the fishwife.

The fishwife hesitated for a moment; then, reflecting that something might be got out of a conversation with the wine-merchant, and sure, moreover, that as long as Toupillier lay on his gold she could safely leave him alone with the portress, she said:-- “Thank you, Madame Perrache, but I’d better make acquaintance with his trades-folk.” Then, having spied behind the night-table a dirty bottle which might hold about two quarts,-- “Did he say the rue des Canelles?” she inquired of the portress.

Birth costs nothing, except in pain and valour and such old-fashioned things; and the merchant need pay no more for mating a strong miner to a healthy fishwife than he pays when the miner mates himself with a less robust female whom he has the sentimentality to prefer.