``Oh, see the fun-ee laundrymans!'' she cried, addressing a cottony doglet's head that bobbed gently up and down over her supporting arm. ``Sweetest Flopit must see, too! Flopit, look at the fun-ee laundrymans!''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
``Thishere laundryman,'' said Genesis, resuming-- ``thishere laundryman what own the dog, I reckon he mus' hopped on 'at street-car what went by.''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
"I couldn't get any pupils," she confessed. "And I couldn't bear to have you give up your lessons; and I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twentyfourth street laundry. And I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina, don't you, Joe? And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home making up that story about the Welsh rabbit. You're not angry, are you, Joe? And if I hadn't got the work you mightn't have sold your sketches to that man from Peoria.英文原著 · 《The Four Million》
I have read in the newspaper that a woman never invented anything. Well, that newspaper ought to begin again. Of course, I do not refer to gossip--I refer to machines--and if I did I might better include the men. That newspaper could never appear if women had not invented something. Friends, think. Ye women, think! You say you cannot make a fortune because you are in some laundry, or running a sewing-machine, it may be, or walking before some loom, and yet you can be a millionaire if you will but follow this almost infallible direction.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Anyway, I got it. My room is right on the harbor. I never thought I would LOVE an oil stove. I always thought they were ill-smelling, air-destroying. But this one saved my life. I wrote with it between my knees, I dry my laundry on it, and use the tin pan on top of it to take the dampness out of the bed. The fog kept everything like a sponge. Coal is thirty dollars a ton.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
Edna found her friend engaged in assorting the clothes which had returned that morning from the laundry. She at once abandoned her occupation upon seeing Edna, who had been ushered without ceremony into her presence.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
And you said, "I'll just tell Rachel that I'm doing laundry for a couple of hours." And he said, "Laundry? Is that my new nickname?" And you said, "No.美剧 · 《Friends》