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He preached quietly, but with an actor's skill, and in a voice so rich and delicate that board chairmen and bored charwomen alike would come back again and again for more.

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There was only a moment�a quick glimpse of scattered squares of light where charwomen worked while the low clouds swirled about the towers.

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It did not need a Roosevelt to teach this to me personally, but that is what he has done to the charwomen of London, the bistro proprietor in Provence, the factory hand in Kharkov.

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From the charwomen to the foreign correspondents, everybody who works for the London Daily Telegraph got a jubilant mimeographed note from the boss, and an extra week's pay.

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I once, indeed, overheard part of a dialogue between Leah and one of the charwomen, of which Grace formed the subject.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë