Sentences with phrase «fetch firewood»

«The suspect, who followed his mother to fetch firewood, hit her with a machete and ran away but he was later arrested.

He said the deceased drowned in the pond after they tried to swim on their way to fetch firewood in nearby Farantawa village of Albasu local government area of Kano state.

In many parts of the world, if you want to marry the person you choose, be gay, be female and economically successful, or avoid daily backbreaking labour carrying water or fetching firewood, then you probably need to move to the city.

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I peeled potatoes, washed dishes, gathered firewood, and generally ran and fetched — and found time to hunt a few squirrels, too.

Her father was considered the head of the house; her mother had very little power and performed traditional «women's tasks» such as fetching water and gathering firewood.