Raffles said that, as far as he knew, the "slaveys" were thinking about anything else than the proceedings of the two young Oliphants. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Ingleton, Minor] Reference
She was of the callously named tribe of lodging-house "slaveys"; and what gave me some interest in her personality, apart from the type she represented, was the fact that she had come from the Vale of Blackmore, a part of Dorset which I knew very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
Served him right, too; acting as if the VADs were his personal slaveys. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
All during the week they worked like kitchen slaveys, doing chores, running errands. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
These slaveys, or servants, were a sort of pariahs among the prisoners, chiefly Johnny Raws, or country chaps, apprentices, or others, who had no acquaintances to assist them while in gaol, and who were not possessed of sufficient dexterity in gambling to supply their wants by any of the various cheating tricks resorted to among the knowing ones. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
Why those plainclothes men are always courting slaveys. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He put his tongue out through the banisters at the children of the house and said, "Little slaveys.". From Wordnik.com. [The House of Arden] Reference
Girls are driven -- when they are not driven to worse -- they are driven to being lodging-house slaveys or over-worked scullions. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Girls are driven – when they are not driven to worse – they are driven to being lodging-house slaveys or over-worked scullions. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Mamie Calligan and her mother were adoring slaveys, so she was not entirely out of the atmosphere which she craved and to which she was accustomed. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
The dinners she ate were as good in one place as in another; the family resemblance which slaveys bear to each other satisfied her eyes, and the difference of latitude and longitude between Glasgow and Aberdeen she found did not in the least alter her daily occupations. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
He waited for pottering old ladies, for gaping slaveys, for the perpetual Buttonses from Thrupp's; and the thing in all this that she would have liked most unspeakably to put to the test was the possibility of her having for him a personal identity that might in a particular way appeal. From Wordnik.com. [In the Cage] Reference
"Only the slaveys and scullery maids that couldn't help themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of William Ashe] Reference
Jill and I have a thing on, and we don't want it spoiled by the slaveys. ". From Wordnik.com. [Roger Ingleton, Minor] Reference
"We must keep it dark from the slaveys," said he, "at least till everybody comes, then they're bound to give us a leg up. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Ingleton, Minor] Reference
Chummies and slaveys. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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