How To Use Housemaid In A Sentence
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
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She was dressed in a normal housemaid's uniform, but her face was ruddy and she looked like she'd spent her entire life in the country.
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Few housemaids stayed beyond their mid-20s, when they left to marry.
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I decided to cut the recipe in half, since I don't have a big family and housemaids and butlers to feed.
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In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage.
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The third housemaid did floors, the second maid cleaned furniture, but the head housemaid did the best stuff like dusting ornaments.
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A somewhat similar swelling, often as large as an egg, is sometimes seen over the kneepan, more often in those who work upon their knees, hence the name housemaid's knee.
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
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From around 1880 State protection on reserves was introduced, though some Aborigines were employed as stockmen and housemaids on rural properties.
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Antoinette this is Brenda our parlourmaid, and Nellie our housemaid.
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This mixture took place when the Spanish colonisers used African and indigenous slaves as housemaids to cook ‘Spanish’ dishes with imported and locally available products.
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Apart from cooks and numerous assistants there were tailors, washermen, attendants to fan their masters, others to keep away fires, and entire hierarchies of housemaids.
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From the young person employed as housemaid, I gets what I take the liberty to call my ground-plan of the baronet's habits; beginning with his late breakfast, consisting chiefly of gunpowder tea and cayenne pepper, and ending with the scroop of his latch-key, to be heard any time from two in the morning to day-break.
Run to Earth A Novel
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It has two twin and two double bedrooms, so it sleeps eight, and comes with a resident butler, a housemaid / cook and 24-hour security (the villa is on an estate).
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
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If you wanted a butler, or a housemaid, or a cook, you got in touch with Mrs Stroud.
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Still, she has to fetch water from public places for those who employ her as the housemaid.
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Next I tried to take off the castigatory appearance, by inserting the bristles in a kind of handle; but then it looked as if the poor woman had been engaged in the capacities of housemaid and child-keeper at once, and, fatigued with her double duty, had sat down on the wine-cooler, with the broom in one hand, and the bairn in the other.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
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Importantly, hirers of house keeping services are spared from the risk of appointing housemaids or servants, whose trustworthiness is a moot point now-a-days.
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'She had been a housemaid at my age.
Times, Sunday Times
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From saloon to salon, from kitchen to kirmess, from the faro table to the Queen's drawing-room, from the canvas trousers of the miner to Poole's creations, from the calico frock of the housemaid to
The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
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As between the Rev. Henry Holyshade and his pupil, the idea of entire unreserve is utter bosh; so the truth as between you and Jeames or Thomas, or Mary the housemaid, or Betty the cook, is relative, and not to be demanded on one side or the other.
Roundabout Papers
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The daily housemaid hoovers the carpet every other day.
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She is always croaking, scolding, bullying -- yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, bowwowing after the little boys, barking after the big ones.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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She grew up with me both as my family's housemaid as well as my childhood friend. 20 years after our separation, Radya is a widow, a mother of 6, and an internally displaced person who joined the Women for Women International program in Karbala, Iraq.
Zainab Salbi: A Long Overdue Reunion
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Our housemaid does everything except ( to ) wash the car.
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One mattress about four inches thick over squeaking slats, cotton sheets, so nicely calculated to the size of the bed that the slightest move on the part of the sleeper would detach them from their moorings and undo the housemaid's work; two limp, discouraged pillows that had evidently been "banting," and a few towels a foot long with a surface like sand-paper, completed the fittings of the room.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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The housemaid comes to mop our kitchen floor twice a week.
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You won't swallow as a housemaid of mine.
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The housemaid comes to mop our kitchen floor twice a week.
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The "tweeny" develops into housemaid or cook; the young girls employed in superior shops to wait on the elder shopwomen hope to develop into their successors, and the girls who nurse babies on the doorsteps are, after all, acquiring knowledge and dexterity that may fit them for domestic service or for the management of their own families a few years later.
Youth and Sex
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She is always croaking, scolding, bullying — yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, bowwowing after the little boys, barking after the big ones.
Dr. Birch and his young friends
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The fact that he recast her as a housemaid or a blowsy country lass is indicative of his desire to distance and protect himself from painful memories.
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I believe the servants and housemaids pick up every little piece of paper.
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For all of Griet's talent for looking at the world from an artist's high-resolution vantage, is her eventual progression from housemaid to housewife really nothing but an inevitability, given both the cultural repression of her gender as well as her parents 'poverty?
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier: Questions
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According to the housemaids, their employer was very talkative and frequently humiliated Saputra, who had been working for her for more than three years.
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Seemingly placid but boiling with passions - from carnality to intense anger - The Housemaid is a hard-boiled little tale dressed up like something calmer and more measured.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Housemaid
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Apart from cooks and numerous assistants there were tailors, washermen, attendants to fan their masters, others to keep away fires, and entire hierarchies of housemaids.
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The housemaid helps the Helmers with the housework, mail, and callers.
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Mrs Claydon left the town's primary school at 14 to work as a housemaid and later married her next door neighbour Alfred-John, who was a bargeman.
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The housemaids had been bribed with various fragments of riband, and sundry pairs of shoes more or less down at heel, to make no mention of crumbs in the beds; the airiest costumes had been worn on these festive occasions; and the daring Miss Ferdinand had even surprised the company with a sprightly solo on the comb – and – curlpaper, until suffocated in her own pillow by two flowing – haired executioners.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Betty, the editor's housemaid, has given warning, declaring that she cannot live with any gentleman who insists upon taking her in his arms, and tossing her up and down as if she was no more than a baby; at the same time making a chirruping noise with his mouth, and calling her "poppet" and "chickabiddy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
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Having lost her husband at a young age she had to earn her living as a housemaid where she was ill-treated and sexually harassed by the house owner.
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The cook often romped with the young housemaid.
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In Singapore, housemaids are employed on two-year contracts, renewable to a maximum of eight years.
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You won't swallow as a housemaid of mine.
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My grandmother used to work below stairs as a housemaid when she was young.
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Martin's previous works include Mary Reilly, a reworking of the Jekyll and Hyde story from the perspective of a housemaid, which was made into a 1996 film starring Julia Roberts.
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housemaid's knee" but its real name is prepatellar bursitis.
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A parlourmaid's job is relatively easy, even more so than a housemaid's job and I was given more freedom and more responsibility.
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Pen, putting on his hat, strode forth into the air, and almost over the body of the matutinal housemaid, who was rubbing the steps at the door.
The History of Pendennis
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Mrs. Williams responded meekly enough but I was sure the moment I was gone the kitchen maids and housemaids would be treated to a rant.
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He arranged terms of intimacy, I am sorry to say, with the housemaid; and, on the third journey, he made an alliance with the potboy at the Full Moon.
He Knew He Was Right
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Certainly, sir. The housemaid will be there right away.
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Technically it was the job of a housemaid or kitchenmaid but here Sarah and I took turns or did it together if there was a dinner party on.
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Forewomen or head cooks, assistant forewomen cooks and vegetable cooks, housemaids, pantrymaids, general domestic workers, and waitresses were wanted immediately.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's Agent Dry Mouth with his palm frond: Tarzan's gorilla housemaid, making the jungle cosy and domestic.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It.
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Moreover, we cannot help but feel sorry for the emotionally lonely jeweler who lacks a wife and is deserted even by his housemaid.
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A parlourmaid's job is relatively easy, even more so than a housemaid's job and I was given more freedom and more responsibility.
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The working hours of housemaids in Jakarta depend on their employers.
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The classes were undergoing sweeping and purification by candle-light, according to hebdomadal custom: benches were piled on desks, the air was dim with dust, damp coffee-grounds (used by Labassecourien housemaids instead of tea-leaves) darkened the floor; all was hopeless confusion.
Villette
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The buxom cook, mistress of the kitchen, the strange newcomer as under-housemaid with her perfect French accent, immaculate sewing, wild imagination and total illiteracy, the repressions of the god-fearing footman and the housemaid, both resigned to service and she doomed to spinsterdom
The Guardian World News
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A domestic helper, housemaid or simply ‘maid’ can be a welcome relief from the daily household chores.
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Antoinette this is Brenda our parlourmaid, and Nellie our housemaid.
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The daily housemaid hoovers the carpet every other day.
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So when they approached this age enquiries were put about as to where there might be ‘a place’ in one of the big houses for a housemaid, kitchenmaid or nursemaid.
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Half the population here have names as unchristian quite – Norma, Odoacer, Archimedes – my housemaid is called Themis – but Dionea seemed to scandalize every one, perhaps because these good folk had a mysterious instinct that the name is derived from Dione, one of the loves of Father Zeus, and mother of no less a lady than the goddess Venus.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Based on job advertisements placed prior to the proposed wage increases, junior kitchen porters and housemaids earn between £9,000 and £9,500.
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Mr. Moya alternates chapters of Haydée's diary with the comic misadventures of her son Clemen and his cousin Jimmy, both on the run from the regime, as they attempt to escape the country, shifting disguises—housemaid, priest, sacristan, livestock traders—and getting lost in a labyrinthine mangrove swamp.
Adios, Warlock
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She'd got this nice job as housemaid in this posh house and the money was bosker.
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.