This lowly maidservant and the other members of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
El sirviente (manservant) La sirvienta (maidservant). From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
“I thought you would bring a maidservant, at the least.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
But I would find pity a poor reason for choosing a maidservant!. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
She handed the loose end to her maidservant and told her to walk. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
From some impure maidservant who has stolen into the household and the nursery?. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
Her faithful maidservant followed her, and the two supported themselves by begging. From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
Or rather I was admiring the ankles of the maidservant walking the dogs over there. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
And even when he commands a maidservant to do anything, get thou up and do it thyself. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers by: This is one of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
When darkness fell, a maidservant brought in one candle and placed it silently on a table. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
His gaze strayed toward a passing maidservant, a slender, dark-eyed girl, near his own age. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
"You look as if you just awakened yourself, Savia," she observed as her maidservant dried her. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
A maidservant, her cap askew and her shoes soaking wet, announced the return of Kay and Roland. From Wordnik.com. [Here Lies Gloria Mundy]
Is the "legal" argument ever anything but pedantry and merely used as a maidservant to politics?. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
The milkers, consisting of the farmer's wife, a man and a maidservant, were infected by the cows. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
'Honi soit qui mal y pense', but why is not that maidservant rather laid by the side of her mistresses?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
A maidservant was sweeping the hall, and she looked up at Nell, clad in her outdoor things, with some surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Livia Drusa said nothing to anyone, even the maidservant who bathed her — and now dressed her wounds as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Many conditions might be inserted: as that the wife should act as maidservant to her mother-in-law, or to a first wife. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
She called her faithful maidservant Nora to bring her a white dress, which had a faint shade of blue mixed with the white. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
He had, however, sufficient self-command invariably to select as his partner the prettiest maidservant in his establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
An unexampled instance of self-devotion and presence of mind was manifested by a maidservant, during the war in La Vendée. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
Pushing Valeria aside, the maidservant made a brisk and businesslike inspection of the bed, clucking approvingly at the blood. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
"All right, go and pick your own maidservant!" said my sister, Rutilia, refusing to have anything more to do with the whole business. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
A stout maidservant cleared away the trenchers, the round slices of bread on which Ugolini had served spring lamb to Daoud and Sophia. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Down the garden pathway came a trim maidservant, who could never guess how John Everard hated her for at least one moment of her life. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
They sent the newly married pair to live in a house at the outskirts of the village and only one maidservant accompanied the princess. From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
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