handmaiden

How To Use handmaiden In A Sentence

• Charmed by the bull's comeliness, Europa and her handmaidens deck him with flowers.
• Technique is the handmaiden of art.
• In his workshop he has handmaidens he has forged out of gold who can move and who help him in his work.
• The fear is that science could become the handmaiden of industry.
• Ilira's handmaiden is Tamara, who allies with Conan in what sounds like a Red Sonja hot amazon role. Archive 2009-11-01
• 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
• Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.
• ‘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.
• 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
• 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