Meanings of returning from market in English

I am a respectable countrywoman returning from market-day with my children.

A housewife returning from market hangs half a dozen of them on her arm.

This poor Cochegrue was returning from market, having sold his corn and two fat pigs.

It is growing late, and the good man will wonder why we are so long returning from market.

Horsemen and carts seem returning from market; women with empty baskets, and then the rare vision of a stage-coach.

One morning, returning from market with her mother, a basketful of vegetables on her arm, she jostled against young Grandjean.

In returning from market it is usual for the farmers and other gig-gentry to alight at the bottom and walk up.

One evening, after an interval of anxious expectation, the farmer, returning from market brought for her two letters, of which the contents were these:

Lemoine, on returning from market where the neighbours had been discussing the plot that was agitating all Paris, said to her tenants, Goodness me!

Finally there came a day when Mohammed, drunk with hashish, saw Hakem, Mr. Feathercock's valet, returning from market with a large bunch of fresh greens.

"'"Well," he said, "about forty years ago this miller, returning from market, was waylaid and murdered on that cross-road, pockets rifled of money and watch.