How To Use Handmaid In A Sentence
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These feeling make you avoid generalizations and Russia is no more 'feudalistic' and USA is no more 'Paradise for handmaidens'.
On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
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The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Then she called her handmaid and said to her, Go to Shajarat al-Durr and say to her, Thy sister saluteth thee and biddeth thee to her; so favour her by coming to her this night, according to thy custom, for her breast is straitened. '
Arabian nights. English
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He did not think of philosophic reason either as a mere handmaid to religion or as a dangerous whore out to seduce the mind into supposing that it could attain its supreme end without God's help and grace.
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Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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For Trevino, his clients, anyone on the short end, there's no mistaking that law is the handmaid to power, and power is something the vast majority of people here haven't got enough of.
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For Jonathan Edwards, history was the handmaid of Jesus Christ.
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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ROY GREENSLADE, PROFESSOR, CITY UNIVERSITY/MEDIA COMMENTATOR: Well, it can be the handmaiden, which is Timothy Balding's point.
CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008
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Only after she heard this from two others did she herself believe it and accept her status as handmaiden, which is reflected in her statement to the angel: “I am running away from my mistress Sarai” (Gen. Rabbah 45: 7).
Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.
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A large part of his limited production is a celebration, in her many guises, of the industrious bourgeois mother: as mentor, minister, governess, purveyor, nurse, needlewoman and handmaid to her children.
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Get it yet; she did not want to be judged on her own name and merits; she wanted to be known as the handmaiden of slick Willie.
Video: Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech
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But it is time to turn to some of those special and rare outgates that the Amen with the keys gave to His favoured handmaiden, the Lady Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments.
Samuel Rutherford
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Then she said to me, “Know that this handmaiden is to us even as our own child and she is a trust committed to thee by Allah.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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All the handmaidens cheered, but the Lady stood to the back of them, her face stoic.
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In this work the aeroplane is the handmaiden of industry.
What Aviation Means to Canada
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The handmaids of these august assemblies are Senor Solana and Mr Patten, the two External Affairs Commissioners.
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I am sure that there is a great work to do, which wants every labourer - to show that Art's highest vocation is to be the handmaid to religion and purity, instead of to mere animal enjoyment and sensuality.
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Philosophy thus conceived can still be regarded as the handmaid of theology, but as Dante develops his philosophical ideal metaphorically in terms of the beauty of the Donna Gentile, it assumes a religious value of its own.
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Richardson plays a "handmaid" - essentially a breeder in a world where most women are sterile - hired out to a privileged couple (Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall) to conceive their child.
Bright Lights After Dark
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And she stored up in her heart the word of wisdom, and straightway rose from her couch and went through the palace; and her handmaids came hasting together, eagerly tending their mistress.
The Argonautica
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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However, unlike TRT, Med TV is not the handmaid of a nation-state.
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Brides usedn't to be 'poor deared' in my day," the old lady remarked rather testily to her handmaiden, Jane.
The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
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The handmaiden is my own sister's child," he answered quietly.
The Moon Pool
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For, as _the Psalm saith_, that "the eye of the handmaid looketh perpetually towards the mistress," and yet, _no doubt, many things are left to the discretion of the handmaid_, to discern of the
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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While they were talking, a gentleman entered whom the duke had sent to Olivia, and he said, So please you, my lord, I might not be admitted to the lady, but by her handmaid she returned you this answer: Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face; but like a cloistress she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears for the sad remembrance of her dead brother.
Twelfth Night; or, What you Will
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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I was then but a simple handmaid who did as I was bid.
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Bumiller mistakenly defines Valkyries as ‘warrior women,’ when the dictionary describes them the handmaids of Odin, riding on horseback, escorting slain heroes to Valhalla.
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When he saw me, he misdoubted of me with exceeding doubt, and said to his suite, ‘Hasten and bring me yonder handmaiden who is faring forth.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.
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Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences.
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The handmaidens of the establishment, in their best caps, then handed the trays, and the young ladies sipped and crumbled, and the bespoken coaches began to choke the street.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the man of Al – Yaman, the master of the handmaids, signed to the fat girl who rose and, pointing her finger at the slim girl, bared her calves and wrists and uncovered her stomach, showing its dimples and the plump rondure of her navel.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Like Madhur Jaffrey, some of them play-act Hindu stories or rituals, and young girls in particular may have real roles to perform as handmaidens of the Goddess in ceremonies associated with her worship.
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And Abu al-Hasan said to him, The reason of my coming is that such an one hath sent his handmaid to thee with a letter, containing his greeting to thee and mentioning therein that the cause of his not coming to thee was a matter that hath betided him.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Now it chanced one holiday, that Kuzia Fakan fared forth to make festival with certain kindred of the court, and she went surrounded by her handmaids.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And they sacrificed all that men could provide for sacrifice on a desolate strand; wherefore when Medea's Phaeacian handmaids saw them pouring water for libations on the burning brands, they could no longer restrain laughter within their bosoms, for that ever they had seen oxen in plenty slain in the halls of Alcinous.
The Argonautica
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I was then but a simple handmaid who did as I was bid.
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And when the folk of that ward sighted such mighty fine sight and marvelous spectacle, all stood at gaze and they considered the forms and figures of the handmaids, marveling at their beauty and loveliness, for each and every wore robes inwrought with gold and studded with jewels, no dress being worth less than a thousand dinars.
Tehran Winter
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Science boasts of being the handmaid of religion; yet there are names of note in her ranks who have labored rather to invest this phenomenon with the mantle of fable, and to force it into collision with the records graven on the rocky pages of geognosy.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
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Although not actually showing the birth of Venus it shows her landing on the island of Cyprus, having been blown there by the west wind on a shell, waiting to meet her and cover her nakedness is one of her handmaidens.
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At the end of the night the beautiful maiden is trying to set up her handmaiden with a young burly blacksmith so she distracts the young guard with her feminine wiles and he is smitten.
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The handmaid in me wanted to abandon the blogs and any other biggety public displays.
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.
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Pure mathematics is not the rival, even less is it the handmaid, of other branches of science.
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Shall she be the Bondslave of Time, the Handmaid of opinion, or the strict observer of every frosty or cold benumbed imagination?
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The popular view is that technology is the handmaiden of science - less pure, more commercial.
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She clad her and her handmaids with care, as did beseem them.
The Nibelungenlied
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However, he wished he could allow himself to join in with Harry's complaints because even his long-legged calf-muscles were aching with the strain of following the handmaid's stride.
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So she called a handmaid that was with her in her apartment by way of service, and said to her, "Go to Ardashir, son of the
Arabian nights. English
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Always putting foremost the welfare of others, she was, for many years, a Handmaid in Knock where she helped bring comfort, solace and support to those in need.
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Poetry and its handmaidens, philology, the study of language history, of grammar, all of those disciplines are the great disciplines of that culture at that period of time in particular.
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Olivia, and he said: 'So please you, my lord, I might not be admitted to the lady, but by her handmaid she returned you this answer: Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face; but like a cloistress she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears for the sad remembrance of her dead brother.'
Tales from Shakespeare
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And as if that weren't enough luxury, you can also employ the services of the masseuse to act as a handmaid to satisfy your every need during the birth.
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Brides usedn't to be 'poor deared' in my day," the old lady remarked rather testily to her handmaiden, Jane.
The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
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One thing that the community must avoid is to make itself the handmaid of any political party.
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Philosophy has traditionally been called ‘the handmaid of theology.’
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The fund acted far too long as a creditor collection agency, a defender of the dollar as the sole reserve currency and even as a handmaiden to US sectoral interests in trade policy.
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In ‘little q’ research, the questions are set in the quantitative paradigm, and the qualitative aspect is little more than a handmaid to the numbers.
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Technique is the handmaiden of art.
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The dance-hall has always been the handmaid of the brothel and the saloon.
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Alcinous bestow, and many Arete; moreover she gave Medea twelve Phaeacian handmaids from the palace, to bear her company.
The Argonautica
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Alcinous bestow, and many Arete; moreover she gave Medea twelve Phaeacian handmaids from the palace, to bear her company.
The Argonautica
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A certain clearness of judgment is apt to be the blessed handmaid of uncommon truth of character; the mind that knows not what it is to play tricks upon its neighbours is rewarded by a comparative freedom from self-deception.
Queechy
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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In his workshop he has handmaidens he has forged out of gold who can move and who help him in his work.
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The two older bridesmaid's dresses were handmaid with fitted skirts and halter-neck tops.
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Once again, the music counts for nothing - in this case, less than nothing; it's even more the handmaid of the text than in Ferdinand.
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They did his bidding and he alighted with his company of handmaids and Mamelukes; and, seeing all the folk of the city in straits and desolation and sore distress, said to the Princess, ‘O love of my heart and coolth of mine eyes, look in what a piteous plight is my sire!’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Prince of True Believers, my handmaid is worth more than this: do but prove her, and her value will be magnified in thine eyes; for this slave-girl hath not her equal, and she were unfit to any but thou.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then she called the handmaid Marjanah hight and said to her, As thou lovest me, do my errand this day and be not neglectful therein!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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570 Then she took from her side a plaited scourge and came down with it on my back and the place where I sit till her forearms were benumbed and I fainted away from the much beating; when she said to the handmaids, “Take him and carry him to the Chief of Police, that he may strike off the hand wherewith he ate of the cumin ragout, and which he did not wash.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The fear is that science could become the handmaiden of industry.
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Ilira's handmaiden is Tamara, who allies with Conan in what sounds like a Red Sonja hot amazon role.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Holinshed states that when the people of Rouen petitioned Henry V., the king replied “that the goddess of battle, called Bellona, had three handmaidens, ever of necessity attending upon her, as blood, fire, and famine.”
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
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Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.
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So she sealed the letter with virgin musk and incensed it with Nadd-scent and ambergris, after which she committed it to a certain of the merchants saying, Deliver it not to any save to Zayn al-Mawasif or to her handmaid
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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‘I believe we need to talk,’ I muttered to her as two handmaidens pulled down her veil and went to unpin her train and carry it behind her.
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She had, therefore, no sooner formed the hasty conclusion, that the individual in question belonged to this obnoxious class, than she resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent handmaidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.
Saint Ronan's Well
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A recent wrier has observed, "The society comes in for a little friendly criticism from time to time from one side or the other of the Church, but it should be borne in mind that it has always striven to be the handmaid of the Church, not the tool of a section.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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It is well you should speedily know that your handmaiden is a poor Jewess, the daughter of that Isaac of York, to whom you were so lately a good and kind lord.
Ivanhoe
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Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes.
The Chicago Blog: May 2006 Archives
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Charmed by the bull's comeliness, Europa and her handmaidens deck him with flowers.
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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The work involved for nurses is general nursing duties while for handmaids, it involves bed-making, cleaning duties and serving meals.
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Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory.
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His historical sweep made necessity appear as the handmaiden of the statesman's perception.
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He was at one with them in seeing economics as the handmaiden of politics.
THE GUARDSMEN
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Roumiyah, a Greek girl, by name Sofiyah or Sophia,145 whom the King of Roum and Lord of Cæsarea had sent to King Omar as a present, together with great store of gifts and of rarities: she was the fairest of favour and loveliest of all his handmaids and the most regardful of her honour; and she was gifted with a wit as penetrating as her presence was fascinating.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In truth, in Azshara’s presence, Tyrande felt even mousier than the handmaiden.
THE SUNDERING
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Technique is the handmaiden of art.
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The strangers shall be joined with them (the Israelites) and _they shall_ CLEAVE to the house of Jacob, and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord, for servants and handmaids.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
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‘An opera libretto has to be stiletto-slim, compared with a play,’ he said, and as much of the novel consists of the handmaid's memories, he faced problems in representing them as parallel action.
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Then she called the handmaid Marjanah hight and said to her,
Arabian nights. English
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The handmaiden was the one bit of home Valeria had brought with her: nag, chaperone, and anchor.
Hadrian's Wall.html
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Like Madhur Jaffrey, some of them play-act Hindu stories or rituals, and young girls in particular may have real roles to perform as handmaidens of the Goddess in ceremonies associated with her worship.
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Olivia, and he said, "So please you, my lord, I might not be admitted to the lady, but by her handmaid she returned you this answer: Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face; but like a cloistress she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears for the sad remembrance of her dead brother.
Tales from Shakespeare
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Science must not become the handmaiden of the state.
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He was at one with them in seeing economics as the handmaiden of politics.
THE GUARDSMEN
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So she called a handmaid that was with her in her apartment by way of service, and said to her, Go to Ardashir, son of the Great King, and fear not.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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theology should be the handmaiden of ethics
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The handmaids in Atwood's tale know only what they are told and are unaware of its subversive capabilities.
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Now the tray-maker was fair of face and comely of form, and the wife of the master of the house saw him and fell in love with him and her heart inclined to him with exceeding inclination; so, her husband being absent, she called her handmaid and said to her, “Contrive to bring yonder man to us.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And when the Minyae departed many gifts of friendship did Alcinous bestow, and many Arete; moreover she gave Medea twelve Phaeacian handmaids from the palace, to bear her company.
The Argonautica