Washington is a state in the northwestern United States.
Imagery would be "The seas were blue while the beautiful skies were as light as my eyes."
Figurative is "The tears from the young girl were swept by the sea."
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The appropriate response is Women's suffrage. It is the privilege of ladies to vote in races. Restricted voting rights were picked up by ladies in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian settlements and western U.S. states in the late nineteenth century.
The principal European nation to present ladies' suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland, at that point some portion of the Russian Empire, which chose the world's first ladies Members of Parliament in the 1907 parliamentary decisions. Norway took after, allowing full ladies' suffrage in 1913.