One of the servants of Nabal told to Abigail, Nabal's wife, how that David had sent messengers from the desert unto his lord, and how wroth and wayward he was, and also he said that those men were good enough to them when they were in desert, ne never perished beast of yours as long as they were there.

Then Abigail hied her and took two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred bottles of wine, five wethers sodden, and five measures of pottage, and one hundred bonds of grapes dried, and two hundred masses of caricares, and laid all this upon asses, and said to her servants: Go ye tofore, and I shall follow after.

As soon as Abigail saw David she descended from her ass, and fell down tofore David, upon her visage and worshipped him on the earth, and fell down to his feet and said: In me, said she, my lord, be this wickedness, I beseech thee that I thine handmaiden may speak to thine ears, and that thou wilt hear the words of me thy servant.

And David said to Abigail: Blessed be God of Israel that sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech, and blessed be thou that hast withdrawn me from bloodshedding, and that I avenged me not on mine enemy with mine hand, else by the living God of Israel, if thou hadst not come unto me, there should not have blyven [been left] unto Nabal to-morn in the morning one man.

and I have honored thy visage; and so Abigail came unto Nabal, and David returned into the place he came from.

Nabal made a great feast in his house, like the feast of a king, and the heart of Nabal was jocund; he was drunken, and Abigail his wife told to him no word till on the morn, little ne much.

Then David sent to Abigail for to have her to his wife, and she humbled herself and said she his handmaid was ready to wash the feet of his servants.

She rails at other women by the names of Jezebel and Delilah; and calls her own daughters Rebecca and Abigail, and not Ann but Hannah.

Of MARTHAS, and of ABIGAILS, few lines Have bragg'd in verse.

In popular novels, at any rate, abigails and scullions reigned supreme.

=Mary Abigail Dodge,[60] 1838-.=

Abigail the wife of Nabal to David, 1 Sam.

Of MARTHAS, and of ABIGAILS, few lines Have bragg'd in verse.

The Beau remarked, with sublime calm, that "none but Abigails appeared in white aprons."

In old Southampton. SEE Halsey, Abigail Fithian.

Abigail Adams: a girl of colonial days.

By Abigail Cole.

A ripple of merriment would unsettle, for a moment, even the dignity of the platform when Abigail Folsom, another crank, would shout from the gallery, "Stop not, my brother, on the order of your going, but go."

I myself have seen one of these Male Abigails tripping about the Room with a Looking-glass in his Hand, and combing his Lady's Hair a whole Morning together.

417-635. Abbey, Westminster 26, 329 Abel Drugger, Ben Jonson's 28, (Fn. 5) Abigails (male) for ladies 45 Abracadabra 221 (Fn. 3)

On the descent of the hill were placed the French horns; the abigails, servants, and neighbours wandering below by the river; in short, it was Parnassus, as Watteau would have painted it.

F and G add after beloved] Abigail. l. 31.

Mrs. Abigail Dever[TR:?], her owner, permitted the slaves to attend revival and other services.

Philip was very fond of his Nana, and in general good and obedient; but what high-spirited boy is proof against the allurements of the only example before him of young manhood, assuring him that it was manly not to mind what the women said, nor to be tied to the apron-strings of his grand-dame's abigail?

Oh, she was a pearl among Abigails!