61 Metaphors for maid

" "Well," sighed mammy, in an attempt to be philosophical, "they do say ole maids is the happies' kind after they quits strugglin'.

The little maid was country bred, but having seen glimpses of city life and possessing much native good taste, she arranged the rooms so charmingly that they would admit of scant improvement.

The maid was all ears, not to lose a word of a language she but half understood, her credulous peasant eyes traveling from the Virgin to the hermit and from the hermit to the Virgin, plainly expressing the wonder she was feeling at such a portentous miracle.

Why, Sirif her Maid will be a jilting Whore, how can I help it?Sharp, thou know'st we presented her handsomly, and she protested she'd do't.

The chariest Maid is Prodigall enough, [Sidenote: The]

Nay, ask not, King, for I wear the ring of a faithful wife and true; Some graceful maid or a widow arrayed in her weeds is the wife for you, And close I cling to the Moorish King who holds me to his breast, For

It was true that since the great singer had closed her long career and had retired to live in the country, in Provence, she dressed with such simplicity as made it possible for her to exist without the long-faithful, all-skilful, and iron-handed Alphonsine; and the maid, on her side, was so thoroughly a professional theatrical dresser that she must have died of inanition in what she would have called private life.

The maid was a thin, dark woman of middle age, from the mountains.

Every tie, so I feel in my heart, by love is unloosened Soon as she fastens her own; and not the maid is it only Leaves behind father and mother, to follow the man she has chosen.

Again the jerks, the rubbing of the eyes, and the Indian maid is once more Mr. Copeland.

"And the maid is a Capet!"

Where in my castle could so young a maid Be lodgedher veil and raiment show her young: Here, in the men's hall?

The maids are mistresses even in their name; And of their servants full dominion claim.

The vig'rous youth to manhood grown, Becomes a hoary sire anon; The blooming maid becomes a bride, A loving consort by her side, The zenith point of earthly bliss, But ah!

But their maid who opened the door, was such a pretty wench that I did not regret their absence.

Douglas' parents were assigned to their tasks, his mother was house-maid and his father was the mechanic, having learned this trade in Maryland as a free man.

"Why is the maid a beggar?"

The vig'rous youth to manhood grown, Becomes a hoary sire anon; The blooming maid becomes a bride, A loving consort by her side, The zenith point of earthly bliss, But ah!

Are you then willing this noble maid Shall be my Queene? Omnes.

The Jews do not easily forget their country nor their families; and this little maid was a true Jewess.

The maid is a little, demure thing, very young for such a position, and positively homely and common in appearance.

That maid must be a reg'lar Jezebel, Betty, that's what she must be.

Alonzo the brave was the name of the knight; The maid was the fair Imogene.

(Maids are young men's chief delights.) A. Nay, women they witch with their eyes (Eyes like beams of burning sun!)

And then he addressed her in courtly terms, as if the lowly-seeming maid had been the high-born lady he wished to find her, calling her Fair and beautiful Marina, telling her a great prince on board that ship had fallen into a sad and mournful silence; and, as if Marina had the power of conferring health and felicity, he begged she would undertake to cure the royal stranger of his melancholy.

61 Metaphors for  maid