354 examples of housemaid in sentences

Mary Johnson housemaid 6.

"A footman making love to a housemaid turned the key in a panic at being trapped," Kelson said to his host.

With what had happened about the other dress in her mind, she examined the marks closely, and with such intentness as to raise the curiosity of a housemaid who happened to come into the room.

The housemaid seems to be a foolish, babbling creature, and the discovery soon became the talk of the servants' hall, whence it spread till it reached the police.

But say; suppose that doctor's one of these swabs who serve out number nine pills for shell-shock, broken leg, dyspepsia, housemaid's knee and the creeping itch?

"It was, of course, a very ticklish point in law whether the housemaid's evidence could be accepted.

And Dr. Hodge adds the note that "Lord Brougham, according to the public papers, uttered these sentiments in vindication of the conduct of the famous Irish advocate Phillips, who on the trial of Courvoisier for the murder of Lord Russell, endeavored to fasten the guilt on the butler and housemaid, whom he knew to be innocent, as his client had confessed to him that he had committed the murder.

If I were a king and she were a housemaid, my eye would recognise her qualities.

I kill no other man's wife,' was said by as pretty, gentle, graceful a lad of two-and- twenty as one need see; a convict performing, and perfectly, the office of housemaid in a friend's house.

Lady Kirkbank receives letters from stylish girls in a hand that would disgrace a housemaid.' Lady Maulevrier allowed a post to go by before she answered this letter, while she deliberated upon the best and wisest manner of arranging her granddaughter's future.

"There was once a Mary Brown," said he, "who was once a housemaid in Mr. Peter Ramsay's inn in St. Mary's Wynd.

Matilde's maid and a housemaid, the cook, and the butler went quietly to their several rooms, took the most valuable of their own possessions, and slipped out.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee?

I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee.

I have not got housemaid's knee.

Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it.

This was the discovery, real or pretended, of a former illicit connection between her brother-in-law and a pretty and intelligent mulatto girl, about eighteen or nineteen years of age, who was still retained in the family in the capacity of housemaid.

One of the bedrooms may be a dressing-room, if it is quite understood that a dressing-room does not mean a cupboard in which the last tenant's housemaid kept her brushes.

Number Two was a much more civil person in speech and manner than Number One; in fact, he speedily made himself so agreeable to the housemaid that she brought him a cup of coffee, and looked admiringly while he swallowed it.

Every English housemaid knows, if every housekeeper does not, that shavings make a most valuable fuel; for lighting fires they are preferable to those faggots, small bundles of which fetch in London, and large provincial towns, what may be considered a high price, as they commonly swell the weekly expenditure of every family.

Housemaid in Glasgow Hotel.

"WHY NOT?" Housemaid.

Now, we are grown-up, respectable people, we often inhabit new dwellings; the housemaid daily cleans them and changes at her will the position of the furniture, which interests us but little, as it is either new or may belong today to Jack, tomorrow to Isaac.

Upper housemaid cut and run in a panic, cook dead drunk last night, not a servant in the house to be trusted.

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