Which preposition to use with maid

of Occurrences 575%

"O maid of the country, rest thee

in Occurrences 156%

Well, 'tis an endless trouble to have the Tuition of a Maid in love, here is such Wishing and Longing.

with Occurrences 79%

She arrived in a coupe, her maid with her, and mounted her horse from the block.

to Occurrences 65%

But, if my actual situation required it, I might set down numerous details which might, perhaps, seem to you of little or no moment, as, for instance, the artful experiment whereby we tested the fidelity of my favorite maid to whom, and to whom alone, we meditated entrusting the secret of this hidden passion, considering that, should another share it, our uneasiness, lest it should not be kept, would be most grievous.

for Occurrences 40%

And many the laws they passed that day; And among them a law that said That the lover who took a maid for his love The maid of his choice must wed; And he who broke this ordinance Should pay for it with his head.

from Occurrences 36%

Thou hast this day saved a witch from cruel death and a lowly beggar-maid from shame.

at Occurrences 33%

alas for Celin!" The Moorish maid at the lattice stands, the Moor stands at his door, One maid is wringing of her hands, and one is weeping sore Down to the dust men bow their heads, and ashes black they strew Upon their broidered garments of crimson, green, and blue Before each gate the bier stands still, then bursts the loud bewailing, From door and lattice, high and low"Alas!

on Occurrences 27%

It is the same necessity which makes a mistress dismiss her maid on the score of a broken teapot, though really she has no end of secret grievances against her; or which makes the man of science condense the endless complexity of certain physical phenomena into a neat but lying formula which he calls a Law of Nature.

into Occurrences 15%

The inquisitive maid into all the the closets.

about Occurrences 13%

The lady called her maids about her, had her old nurse conveyed to bed, where every means were used to restore animation.

as Occurrences 13%

"The whole thing, the theft of the Princess Nastirsevitch's jewels from your cousin, of Miss de Longarde's or Lennard's jewels, was the work of a peculiarly clever gangthough it may be of an individualwho made use of both Lydenberg and the French maid as instruments, and subsequently murdered those two in order to silence them forever.

like Occurrences 13%

The Moor was faithful to his charge, a warrior stout and leal, And Chico took the note of love and trembling broke the seal; And when the open page he saw and read what it contained, These were the words in which the maid of her hard lot complained: THE LETTER OF VINDARAJA "Ah, hapless is the love-lorn maid like me in captive plight, For freedom once was mine, and I was happy day and night.

by Occurrences 12%

" He halted; in the driveway, blocking it, stood a red motor cara little runabout affair; and at the steering-wheel sat a womana lady's maid by her cap and narrow apron, and an exceedingly pretty one, at that.

than Occurrences 6%

But I care a great deal more for our little maid than for Naaman.

beside Occurrences 5%

And many a goodly maid beside Nor ever glance to my abode.

among Occurrences 5%

Now, I caught the Maid among the great rocks, which did stand all about; and before her there did be a monstrous pit whence came the upbursting of the water; and the water to go upward before our faces in a mighty column, so that it did be as that a sea shot up on end, into a pillar of living water, and went upward forever, as it did seem in that moment.

under Occurrences 4%

Irons for the Colonel and his son, a smart boy with boots for Mr. Binnie; Mrs. Irons to cook and keep house, with a couple of maids under her.

without Occurrences 4%

She overflows so with the Bible, that she spills it upon every occasion, and will not cudgel her maids without Scripture.

unto Occurrences 4%

And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

out Occurrences 3%

Lanyard reckoned on anything from fifteen minutes to an hour before her couching would be accomplished and the maid out of the way.

before Occurrences 3%

And I set the Maid before me, that I have myself ready to the danger that followed; and we made forward again then, so quick as we were abled; and she went very wisely; for she had good wit and had noted the ways of my leading.

within Occurrences 3%

he murmured, "O Helen, poor am Ia beggar" "Beltane," she whispered, "an thou wed this lonely maid within the forest, then will I be beggar with thee; but, an thou take to wife the Duchess, then shalt thou be my Duke, lord of me and of Mortain, with her ten thousand lances in thy train.

near Occurrences 3%

'I am very glad; but surely she ought to have her maid near her at night, if she is subject to those attacks.'

after Occurrences 2%

Did he not tell me at first he had not seen this maid after Amberieux at 8 P.M.?

around Occurrences 2%

"Why do you suppose that Pa-pah is rowing somebody's maid around the bay, and singing that way to her?" "Perhaps it's one of our maids," said Drusilla; "but that would be rather odd, too, wouldn't it, Mr. Yates?" "Alittle," he admitted.

Which preposition to use with  maid