Pieces of the dead hang from trees "like drying laundry"; a mortal head wound is "a bloody custard spilled in the dirt."

The fleet was now stretched across several miles of sea, each ship wary of accidentally drifting into another, sails hanging down like drying laundry.

The sails flapped and shivered, like drying laundry.

The buildings have twisted brick chimneys and characteristic wooden racks for drying laundry outside the windows.

The balconies of the houses were draped with drying laundry.

Around 1800 it was used by the overseer for drying laundry.

The washing kitchen led out to a tiny courtyard full of drying white laundry.

There were clothes, personal items, readers, even drying laundry still in evidence.

Another is the stamping mill itself, with the upper floor used for drying laundry in winter and used for other purposes in summer.

In the distance the bleached-out hills sat glumly, weighted down by rickety shanties and hundreds of lines of drying laundry.