Two middle-aged women are busily spraying and scrubbing the telephone booth as I approach.

Further along the street a woman was scrubbing her doorstep.

A woman had come out and was industriously scrubbing her doorstep.

A sullen Vietnamese woman scrubbed lackadaisically at a mud-encrusted set of fatigue pants, hardly bothering to give us a glance.

Meanwhile, women swept and scrubbed and baked and sang the songs of work and weariness.

Cennedi had gone out, Bebinn and her serving woman were scrubbing the dishes with wood ash and rinsing them in a pot.

Before washing machines, women scrubbed thick woolen clothes on washboards, sometimes taking all day.

Another woman scrubbed clothing with a washboard and stone.

She was down on all fours, and, as Mavra watched, she realized the woman was scrubbing the marble floor with a stiff brush.

An old woman was scrubbing the stair, and the board was down.