Inflammation of it goes by the common name housemaid's knee. From Wordnik.com. [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference
The housemaid is also a good servant, but not so agreeable a one. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
'And he buried her beautiful, ma'am,' said a certain housemaid to her once. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
A safe housemaid is so much easier to get here than a cook, who doesn't drink, nor steal, nor take the house to herself!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The housemaid is a local girl, steady and not too bright. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Road]
A housemaid is a housemaid, just as I myself am a portress. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
The housemaid was a young girl; nice looking, with beautiful eyes and. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Virginia and Leonard frequently used the word housemaid as an insult. From Wordnik.com. [Imperfect Union] Reference
Perhaps you would be so kind as to call a housemaid to show me to my room?. From Wordnik.com. [The House at Riverton] Reference
The housemaid was a plump, good-natured German girl, with a pronounced German accent. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays] Reference
Being a housemaid is a demanding job that earns little pay and less respect - a job for the poor and uneducated. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
"Am I to understand, Sir Percival, that your wife's room is a prison, and that your housemaid is the gaoler who keeps it?". From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
` Am I to understand, Sir Percival, that your wife's room is a prison, and that your housemaid is the gaoler who keeps it? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
In fact, the housemaid is a particular decent sort of a girl. ". From Wordnik.com. [Simon] Reference
I'm sorry to have to say it, because the housemaid is a nice girl. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference
The housemaid is a natural woman. From Wordnik.com. [arabnews - frontpage] Reference
His daughter and his housemaid were the boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess] Reference
She still hesitated, but the housemaid was bolder. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
I wish I had a cook, and laundress, and a housemaid. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Here and there a housemaid was busy with duster and cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Dona Detinha left school in the third grade to work as a housemaid. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil's Junkyard Angel] Reference
We have various servants - a cook, a housemaid, a nurse, and a coachman. From Wordnik.com. [The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians] Reference
A former housemaid who knew Brooke all too well writes back with her memories. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Titles That Will Take You Back In Time] Reference
West in the hall, or Miss Turner on the stairs, or the housemaid in your bedroom?. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
'Luncheon is served, ma'am,' said the housemaid, tapping at the door at this moment. From Wordnik.com. [That Scholarship Boy] Reference
He appeared in the corridor, calm, stately, giving a passing housemaid a look of scorn. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
He was thinking of what the housemaid had told him, and wishing very much to know more. From Wordnik.com. [Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place] Reference
“I sent out the housemaid to fetch your new gloves,” she now shouted at the balcony. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse] Reference
To give idea of its importance, he vows he wouldn't keep a housemaid who had a bad head. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
He stood like a housemaid with dustpan and broom to gather up the wreckage of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
He had been a gamekeeper on a nobleman's estate, and his wife had been a housemaid there. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
He little knew what his accidental interview with Hannah, the housemaid, would result in. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
"Doesn't it seem to you that the windows let in more sunlight of late, ma'am?" asked a housemaid. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
It was the housemaid, and the candle that she held in her hand showed a grave, tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place] Reference
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