244 examples of chambermaid in sentences

" "Ruby, I" "If all those big, strapping women, Suss and Finshriber and the whole gang of them, were anything but vegetables, they'd get out and hustle with keeping house, to work some of their flabbiness off and give us a chance to get somebody in besides a chocolate-eating, novel-reading crowd of useless women who think, mommy, you're a dumbwaiter, chambermaid, lady's maid, and French chef rolled in one!

He would brush his curly mop of hair away from his forehead, lift his eyes, part his lips, showing a row of tiny white teeth; then a dimple would appear in each cheek and a seraphic expression (wholly at variance with the facts) would overspread the baby face, whereupon the beholderMother Carey, his sisters, the cook or the chambermaid, everybody indeed but Cousin Ann, who could never be wheedledwould cry "Angel boy!"

To be the last was by far the easiest, for the earliest effort at economy had been the reluctant dismissal of Joanna, the chambermaid.

We succeeded in procuring some black coffee, though the chambermaid regarded this as a most unusual 'bedroom order' at that hour of the day; and when M. Desmoulin had lighted a cigar, his friend a pipe, and myself a cigarette, a regular Council of War was held.

Then he wondered if he might not convey the tip to some one who had access to his bedroom; his valet or a chambermaid who, as though by accident, might stumble upon the will.

Its measures are haunting my dreaming; I rise at the breakfast-bell's call To hear the new chambermaid screaming The chorus aloud through the hall.

Mama had no time; she was a chambermaid (housewoman).

FIRST WAITER Here comes Susan Chambermaid, may be she can tell.

(The Chambermaid and Waiters slip out.) (Solus.)

Hospitalities of "Friends"Harvest Aspects: English Country Inns; their Appearance, Names and Distinctive CharacteristicsThe Landlady, Waiter, Chambermaid and BootsExtra Fees and Extra Comforts.

CHAPTER VI. HOSPITALITIES OF "FRIENDS"HARVEST ASPECTSENGLISH COUNTRY INNS; THEIR APPEARANCE, NAMES, AND DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICSTHE LANDLADY, WAITER, CHAMBERMAID, AND BOOTSEXTRA FEES AND EXTRA COMFORTS.

But the actual gerantes, or working corps, with which you have to do immediately, are three independent and distinct personages, called the waiter, chambermaid, and boots.

When made out and interpreted, it comes to this: the proprietor, the waiter, chambermaid, and boots are independent parties, who get up a night's lodging and two or three meals for you on the same footing as four independent underwriters would take proportionate risks at Lloyd's in some ship at sea.

The worst stage of the system was when the expected gift was measured by your supposed position and ability, or when the waiter or the chambermaid, flattering you with what Falstaff would call an instinctive perception of your dignity, would say with an asking and hopeful smile, "What you please, sir."

for every meal he serves; the chambermaid 6d.

The same may be said of the chambermaid.

" "A chambermaid!" growled out his comrades, and turning their dark, lowering looks on Bertram, they inquired of him whether this woman were only a chambermaid in Gotzkowsky's house, and assailed him with reproaches and curses because he had deluded them into the belief that Gotzkowsky's daughter had been captured.

" "A chambermaid!" growled out his comrades, and turning their dark, lowering looks on Bertram, they inquired of him whether this woman were only a chambermaid in Gotzkowsky's house, and assailed him with reproaches and curses because he had deluded them into the belief that Gotzkowsky's daughter had been captured.

"It was not worth while making so much fuss about a little chambermaid.

The countess's own chambermaid, knowing the liberality of the young count, had gone to him, and for a golden bribe had betrayed to him her presence, and communicated all that she knew of her plans and intentions.

In this manner Bertram had rendered any meeting between Feodor and Elise impossible, but he could not prevent his servant, Petrowitsch, from meeting his sweetheart, Elise's chambermaid, on the street.

Nor was it the appointed hour; neither did her chambermaid, who waited in the lower story, come to seek her.

In the meantime we turned our "private maid" and the chambermaid loose to see if we had overlooked anything.

Then old Peter rang a bell which stood on the hall table, and called out to Ann Coddle (once my nurse, now the seamstress, chambermaid, and general lightener of his toils), to tell Miss Pauline a lady wanted her.

Marie, the chambermaid, knew it, and spoke of it frequently to Bernardine.

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