He has been instructed to bring soda whenever he hears the word slavey pronounced from above. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The derisive slang term "slavey" expresses the generally prevalent public contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference
She crushes past the little "slavey," and approaching, eyes me critically. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Kelver, a Novel] Reference
One of these is -- "The idea of degradation, attached to the position of a 'slavey' in the minds of the lower classes themselves.". From Wordnik.com. [Town Life in Australia] Reference
And how their idealism and values triumphed over slavey and bigotry. From Wordnik.com. [Caledonian Trilogy - from Willie Wallace to Barack Obama. With a helping hand from Elvis and Rabbie!] Reference
But how different she was from the starved-looking, boarding house slavey!. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
So we went for a walk round by the canal and she told me she was a slavey in a house in. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
Slatternly slavey frock, soiled white apron, cap awry, large slippers tied on with string. From Wordnik.com. [Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts] Reference
So shalt thou make five dinars a day and be my slavey and I will protect thee against thy master with this staff. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I shall probably be French-maided to the limit if I ever get a start, though I'd rather be a slavey or a chimney-sweep!. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
But she was an entirely different looking girl from the boarding house slavey whom Hiram remembered so keenly back in Crawberry. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
We were not afraid, being young, and ate heartily, and it no doubt went out stripped and blind to the kitchen-slavey and her poubelle. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac] Reference
"There's nothing to touch a good slavey," he affirmed. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
The slavey tossed her head, and said she'd see about it. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
So shalt thou make five dinars a day and be my slavey and. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
And, when I got home, the slavey had forgotten to lay supper!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893] Reference
Two distinct knocks, sir, will produce the slavey at any time. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
In the dim passage stood the small slavey, holding out a note. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Kelver, a Novel] Reference
It is not green fields that lured the heavy feet of this slavey. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
He hadn't joined the army to be a slavey to any damned first loot. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
"Heah's yo 'mail, Miss Laura," said the slavey, with a significant leer. From Wordnik.com. [The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life] Reference
We were acquainted with a lodging-house slavey once -- a real one, we mean. From Wordnik.com. [Stage-Land] Reference
Some of the people in this street are even so well-to-do as to keep a "slavey.". From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
One day she heard him imploring the little slavey to put some buttons on his shirts. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
The slavey has Mr. Frederick's hot water, and a bottle of sodawater on the same tray. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
I never was in a lodging-house in my life that the slavey didn't fall in love with me. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
Ashamed to face Mrs. Peedles or even the slavey, I kept to my room, with the door locked. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Kelver, a Novel] Reference
Richardson is only his landlady's slavey, aged about fifteen, and wistful at sight of food. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Sit-By-The-Fire] Reference
The landlady and a slavey waited on table; the landlord could be seen loafing in the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
'You'd give me something as I should remember,' she answered, smirking, the good little slavey. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Alive she can think of herself only as Clara, the slavey at whom the boys giggle and call names. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
Pango gave the incomprehensible name of a village in the interior, adding, "Make slavey, make slavey.". From Wordnik.com. [The Three Commanders] Reference
Altogether she was just the little unlovely slavey of fiction and the drama and everyday life in boarding-house-land. From Wordnik.com. [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference
A single life of drudgery and hardship, even as a boarding-house slavey, meant, if nothing more, meals and a roof over her head. From Wordnik.com. [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference
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